Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many people ask me how I learned to be a comic," he said. "When I was a boy, I worked all through the day in the coal mines. When I got up in the morning it was dark, and when I got to the mine it was still dark. Down in the mine it was darker yet, and at night, when I came up, it was dark again. And that's how I learned to be a comic...
Apparently this is a game which no statesman can afford to neglect; its influence on the destinies of man deserves more profound contemplation than our comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
...Eight college generations have passed since the first number was published. Forty-eight years ago tonight we were preparing the February 1, 1876 issue, the first comic paper in America. In those days we never had any rivalry with the Magenta till it became the 'Crime...
...arched eyebrow over the askance eye of the intellectual has been lifted in deprecation ever since the high name of comedy has been debased by its application to "comic strips." Comic strips, the horseplay of journalism, the daily joy of my honest burghers, have suffered long the stings of contempt. Seldom have they been excoriated so devastatingly or on such grounds as by Alejandro Hoch, an editor from the Argentine, who is visiting these parts. These are his winged words describing this danger to civilization...
Roseanne. The Negro is one of the comic traditions of our native drama. Accordingly, the producers of this serious study of Southern life run the risk of casting a paradox in the public teeth. Visitors to whom Shuffle Along is the alpha and omega of Negro theatricals may be annoyed at the sturdy significance of Roseanne. For it seems to be one of the more important components of the current theatrical constituency. The story deals with the religious rascality of a Negro priest. In the midst of a howling revival meeting, word comes that he has seduced a girl. Promptly...