Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They quarrel about everything, rudely finger-point each other's blunders in derisive front-page jibes. Their longest-standing squabble, concerning comic strips, reached a ludicrous end last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that...
Three hundred and sixteen Seniors replied to Palmer's survey, and more than two-thirds indicated one of these occupations as their future profession. The remaining third listed a number of variegated undertakings, ranging from archeology, aviation, piano making, and the theatre, to comic art, puppetry, and pioneering agricultural work in Palestine. Only 11 had as yet formed no definite idea...
...most picturesque, possibly the ablest pitcher in the game. The World Series and the ballyhoo that surrounded his performance in it began to make him something else, a national hero. He and Brother Paul appeared in cinema and vaudeville. He got $15,000 as hero of a Grape-Nuts comic strip. He endorsed sweatshirts, baseball suits and liniment. When, two months ago, before going to Bradenton (whose Chamber of Commerce recently voted to change its name to Deanville), he won an argument to have his salary raised to almost $20,000, the fact made front page headlines. His biography...
...greatest newspaper in the U. S. by the simple but difficult procedure of giving more news than any other. It won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for publishing many official War documents and statesmen's speeches in full. Often it was dull, but never incomplete. It shunned comic strips, and breezy feature stories but was the first newspaper in the U. S. to offer rotogravure...
...Sothern, she of the dulcet crooning soprano, is the only person who is unfortunately cast. Her really delightful voice is not given ample opportunity. The girl who so successfully put over "Your Head on My Shoulder" in "Kid Millions" deserves a better break than the comic "Rhythm of the Rain." The sleek beauty of Merle Oberon produced a gasping reaction in the audience, and the rest of the cast were adequate...