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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent graduates have subjects the College to a comic book analysis with 57 witty and perceptive cartoons and a short, sometimes amusing text. David G. Braaten drew most of the cartoons for the CRIMSON while he was its staff cartoonist in 1947-49. He has added several more since his graduation to bring the 62-page volume up to date...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

Almost every other comic has nervously surrounded himself with elaborate props for his entry into television. Jimmy Durante brought only his nose, his piano, his rasp-voiced songs and patter, and sat down like an old friend in the televiewer's living room. Durante and TV were a long time getting together, but it was well worth the wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Grande (Argosy; Republic] continues the descent of Director John Ford into his latter-day role as scourge of thd redskin and glorifier of the U.S. Cavalry. The Rover-boy characters, the conflict of love v. duty, the boisterous comic relief, the cavalry charges and screeching Indian raids are all here, set against the well-photographed buttes and plains of what used to be God's country before Ford took it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...then that Nazi propaganda lies about Roosevelt's racial background could have begun. For each time a new set of officers was elected in those days a comic poster was printed playing on the names of the new men. In FDR's case it read: "For Secretary, Rosy Rosenfelt, The Lillie of the Valley...

Author: By Frank B. Qilbert, | Title: FDR Headed Crimson During College Years; Work on Paper Was Most Important Activity | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Thee I Sing | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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