Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huntington, W. Va. Herald-Dispatch solemnly stopped publishing the famed comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," last week on the ground that "Annie has been made the vehicle for a studied, veiled, and alarmingly vindictive propaganda...
...opinion of the Herald-Dispatch, the creator of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie has violated his sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
...which has not yet gone to a publisher. Well aware of the part that decolletage has played in her career, she also knows that the personal accomplishment which Hollywood prizes above all others is wit and it distresses her sometimes to find that, however invaluable her sense of the comic may be on the screen, she rarely gets credit for it elsewhere...
...full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen who started beating up a swarthy little man only to have him scream "Fools! I am a Storm Troop leader from Bavaria visiting Berlin. Here is my Party card! I was a veteran of the Party when you were still rolling...
...developed a formula of its own, to which the nudity and wisecracks, the crooned syncopation and eager pace of last year's musicals would be an unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered...