Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second string network, produced one of radio's first network soap operas (Little Orphan Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors. If the Blue's survey was correct, the network undoubtedly had a case for its soapless policy. If not, it had at least made history by publishing...
After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...
...Dartmouth," a daily paper loaded with AP news and comic strips, is Dartmouth's answer to the college newspaper crisis, and announcements of its publication for the six-week intercession call it "the oldest college newspaper--now the greatest...
...There are many reasons why students have failed so miserably in the past several years to maintain creditable scholastic standing and make sound academic records. . . . The present generation has been weaned on the comic strip. It has absorbed huge, indigestible amounts of outrageously inane (for the most part) Hollywood movie fare. It has been given cheap, miserably lean radio entertainment. In short, the younger generation hasn't been given half a chance to improve itself mentally...
Radio, the habitual borrower, was a long time getting around to Anne Nichols' indestructible comedy. The comic-strip farce of the Levys' and the Murphys' painful acceptance of their children's marriage had played all over the U.S. (once 16 road companies were hard at it) and throughout most of the civilized world. It had even lasted eight months in Berlin just before Hitler...