Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason, an old-time Harlem comic who had written the Richard skit back in 1919. Mason was hastily cut in for half the profits...
Victor Herbert tunes make up for the tara-diddles. The title song and I Might Be Your Once-in-a-While are familiar favorites, and a comic sextet, Pilgrims of Love, has been gagged up into a high spot of the show. Otherwise, the score is just about as faded as the book...
Even the South had never seen anything quite like the Caesarean operation by which Hummon was jerked out of obscurity, blessed by the General Assembly, bathed in publicity, and installed in the governor's mansion in his pappy's place. Neither had it seen anything like the comic opera alarums & excursions which followed it. During the week Georgia had endured not one but three governors. Both retiring Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall and Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, once Arnall's executive secretary, had set up governments-in-exile. And Georgia had been all but inundated...
Ascendant popularity of nationally syndicated comic strips was seen yesterday as "a pornographic trend," and "dry rot for American youth," by Franklin G. Balch '49, spokesman for the College Montaigue Society...
...death. He owned not a hair on Terry's head, and if he died his wife would get not a cent of Terry's future income. Like nearly every trained seal in his line, he was held prisoner by the "shop rights" system. Its major premise: comic strips are owned, not by their creators, but by the syndicates that sell them...