Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. newspapers whose sense of responsibility is confined to their comic strips echoed the Goebbels line. A section of U.S. public opinion was prepared to revive the Red menace...
Even Germany has never seen an election with such a comic-opera touch. Nazi-copying Dictator-President Higinio Morinigo reluctantly yielded to a combination of forces and decided to go through the motions of an election for the presidential term of 1943-48. He set up a candidate-himself-and decreed an electoral period from Jan. 16 to Feb. 14. He promised that the elections would not fall into the errors of the so-called "free-election system." Just to make sure, he decreed "[It is] strictly forbidden to agitate public opinion or divide the citizens with party appeals...
Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...
Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
...plump-bottomed girls, vainly trying to get their shaggy, Pan-piping friend to romp with them, are depicted in academic, sugary fashion. But the draftsmanship is strong, the painted human flesh masterly. In its time the picture has traveled widely on boxes of Hoffman House perfectos, in a comic lithograph showing a bum leaning on the Hoffman bar, staring at the nymphs by their woodsy creek. The caption: "I've been looking all over the world for that creek, but darned if I can find...