Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps of the City Hall. He was the first man to arrive at the scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every big fire, and the first...
...world. Last month short, balding Cartoonist Fabrès came to try his metal in the U. S. Last week his first impressions of life in Manhattan appeared in the New York World-Telegram. In his Adventures of Oscar, Oscar is himself, drawn much smaller than in his European comic strips. His explanation: "I am bewildered. I feel like a very little man in New York." In one strip (see cut) he is frisked in & out of his overcoat by a tall, indifferent U. S. doorman...
Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
Such playboy feats are all very warming to the neutral U. S., where Superman is the No. 1 comic-strip character, a hero to millions of youthful muscle-worshipers; but to a country at war, like Canada, this reduction of a life-&-death struggle to the absurdity of a comic strip is no joke. Superman's irresistible strength came up against the impenetrable wall of Canadian censorship, and one day last fortnight there was no Superman in the Toronto Star...
...being praised and ecstatically admired, there are two equally deserving of praise, which are recognized only by the wall upon which they hang. And these unrecognized attempts can be found, not only in museums, but more often on the wall of a cocktail lounge or restaurant in the daily comic sheet, sometimes in the form of an especially well-executed advertisement, and in the lobbies of theatres. Very often real art can be found by looking toward the ground rather than by gazing at a slowly passing cloud. For this reason, criticisms and evaluations of decorative effects in such places...