Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer harasses the men for reasons beyond their ken. Union conventions, once rough and fiery, now seem like Rotary meetings. In 1945 the G.M. strike began with the class-struggle refrain, Solidarity Forever. This month's strike threat brought forth, instead, over the U.A.W. radio program, a comic song directed at Henry Ford II: Dance With Me, Henry...
Here one finds all of the intense excitement and total devotion that goes into the building of a nation. I believe that we here in America have lost this sense of excitement and deep responsibility."' Winging into Los Angeles after a ten-day Australian tour, Comic Bob Hope reported to newsmen that great preparations are under way Down Under for the 1956 Olympic games, mused that he himself was thinking of trying to wangle a spot on the U.S. team. He had a hankering to throw a javelin, he said, and "I'll throw Sinatra...
From the "talebearer" condemned in Ecclesiastes to the "stool-pigeon" villain of the modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...
...mortgage was to be foreclosed and that the Old Lampoon Building would be used as a dining room in the new House system. 'Poon President Alan Blackburn answered the attacks with a famous "Revolt of the Masses" issue which eventually provoked a personal apology to donor Harkness from the comic magazine...
Most of the spring's activities centered around the Lampoon. After the Ibis had been annually stolen, the comic organization published its Tercentenary number, which was followed with threat of a suit from Boston Mayor James Curley...