Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loonies than the five who rolled Bottom (played by Fred Gwynne) onstage. Gwynne squeezed every laugh out of the lines Shakespeare gave him and added a few of his own. He and his screwball cohorts used tricks of makeup, mugging, double taking, and simple grouping on stage for comic effect that would make the Marx brothers jealous. They were quite free of restraint and that was probably all for the good...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
Capehart saw this broad satire as "another Fair Deal blow below the Belt." Cried he: "Looks to me like Socialistic propaganda aimed at discrediting American industry." Meekly the Defense Department gathered up the 500,000 comic books it had printed, and burned them...
White's Scandals, The Wizard of Oz, Du Barry Was a Lady), back as a Broadway comic for the first time in seven long years, was making his entrance in the hit revue, Two on the Aisle...
Berliners still remember the comic relief that fat Hermann Goering injected into the tragic drama of their lives. They remember him standing on icy street corners, bundled snugly up to the ears in a fur coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please! It is more blessed to give than to receive!" They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still...