Word: dares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their former conventional blinkers. It is a fact too that [although] many academic 'realistic' painters dare to appear in their naked photographic vulgarity, they now make a timid try at what are for them daring color schemes. We may claim to have done the mopping...
Caniff's dear, dead A.P. days will never be beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, the P. T. Barnum of the U.S. comic strip. "There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...
...never dare again...
Professor Elliott makes himself a mighty strategic position from which to sling low punches at the Chicago Student Conference and the International Union of Students. If you dare to disagree, it makes you either a "Red" or worse yet "naive." But too much honest work and thought and hope have gone into the Chicago and the Prague Conferences, a little of it mine, to allow Elliott to get away with an attack that is ignorant, prejudiced, and untrue...