Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as I enjoyed your reference to my favorite comic, Li'l Abner, your shallow interpretation of Old Man Mose's warning distressed me. [The warning: "Shmoos, mah boy, is th' greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has ever known...
...said, a spiritualist had put him in touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
What amazed investigators-and might well appall Wall Street-was that Goldsmith's comic-strip forecasts had been right as often as many solemn market guides that rely on the "science" of charts, trend lines, explosion points, recoils, double tops and double bottoms. Nevertheless, the Attorney General last week got an injunction stopping Goldsmith's forecasts-not because they came from comic strips but because he had not said...
...conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...
Three years after Herself Surprised appeared in England, Cary published a sequel, The Horse's Mouth. The story of Gulley and Sara in their old age, it is a wonderfully comic and roisterous novel, tougher and more brilliant than Herself Surprised. Taken together, the two novels form one of the most impressive pieces of English writing in the past decade...