Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago the problem was easily settled. Spring began when the Boylston Professor took his first stroll of the season in the Yard in company with his favorite cow. But the cow died; now it is somebody's duty to find another way to be certain about spring...
Died. Thomas Fleming, 78, political cartoonist; at Maplewood, N. J. hospital; following a physical breakdown in Florida last year. An oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East...
...cows named Mrs. Pauline Guernsey and Mrs. Winnie Jersey and their calves Dolly and Dimples were well acquainted with Los Angeles by last week. Bumped, joggled but still placid, they had been carted around by two big trucks among 85 of Los Angeles' 294 public elementary schools. They had been gazed at, petted by some 2,000 school children daily. Their guardian, one Jay Dutter, member of the California Dairy Council, had lectured about them, fed them, demonstrated the uses of such typical bovine features as the udder.* Sponsor of this tour was Mrs. Etta Louise Ross, assistant director...
...Cinemaddict Los Angeles school children might already have been udder-conscious after viewing the capacious, undulant udder of the cow in Mickey Mouse films. These were banned last fortnight by Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays (TIME...
Already censors have dealt sternly with Mickey Mouse. He and his associates do not drink, smoke or caper suggestively. Once a Mickey Mouse cartoon was barred in Ohio because the cow read Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. German censors ruled out another picture because "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only...