Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickly girl, told his story. His mother had kept him locked in a bare, tiny, lightless room as far back as he could remember. She had brought him food on a tray, but he was forever hungry. Now & then she gave him a few marbles or a comic book...
Curly-haired, nine-year-old Symphony Conductor Ferruccio Burco (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was making himself at home in the fourth grade at a Manhattan school. Called "Butch" by classmates, he had built up a library of comic books, a collection of toy guns (55), and an impression that "some" little U.S. girls are "pretty...
...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...
Only the day before, the New York Public Service Commission had hastily granted the Long Island a $3.2 million-a-year boost in its commutation fares, the third boost since 1918. But the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the bills anyway: the Long Island would have to shift for itself. With only $60,000 cash left in its till, there was nothing left for the Long Island but to ask the court to appoint trustees and reorganize...
...Comic Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman...