Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father baptized. Mother turns on nothing more momentous-simply Mother's determination to get a 22-year-overdue engagement ring; but it somehow seems much more cooked up. For Father had soured on engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...
Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee...
Russell claims that comedian Fred Allen owes him a new Ford, but the radio comic has been giving his demands the cold shoulder all week...
Psychiatry is not yet 60 years old; it is the youngest and most controversial branch of medicine. But psychiatry's solemn clinical lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even...
...income, such deals have meant plenty to the Disney-Kamen partnership. Disney's last financial report lumped merchandising with income from comic strips and commercial pictures, at a yearly net of $1,048,522. Kamen, who makes no financial reports for his own private company, last week reckoned the 1948 gross at $1,000,000-of which, he said, Disney would get $700,000, Kamen...