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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboy's barring out Too comic for the solemn things they are Too comic for the solemn things in them...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Times Out of Joint | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...nine dailies broke the silence with editions that tried, in one way or another, to make up for lost days. The Daily News brought comic-strip buffs up to date on neglected episodes in the lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Good Old Song | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with a steel file jutting candlelike from the frosting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Protecting the Source | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Abner. Al Capp's comic-strip Dogpatch set to music. In CINCINNATI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...present, there are five Humanities courses offered, ranging from "Epic and Novel" to "Uses of the Comic Spirit." Two of these are limited in enrollment to 200 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen Ed Committee Plans New Humanities Course | 1/8/1959 | See Source »

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