Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic Italy of fifteen years ago. The sights are still here: certainly there are but few more artistic and beautiful small cities in the world than Florence; and for sheer majesty and spaciousness Rome is in a class by itself; for Naples there is always the bay, Vesuvius and donkey carts; and for the most thrilling and picturesque drive in the world there's the Amalfi Drive. For more of antiquity there's Pompei; and for two of the most gracious of ancient temples certainly everybody goes to Paestum. And then there's Capri, where they don't know...
...himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which they described as "not quite big enough for a swim," a bath mat embroidered with a brown donkey and the confident inscription: "We are here to stay...
...last word in Hollywood comic invention is a shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...
...following issue flatteringly mentioned by TIME. If ridiculous half-dressed, I assumed that wholly nude excepting for a hat and cane he would be a very good symbol for the "Old Deal," those who, in both parties, were generally regarded as stand pat and conservative and for whom the donkey and elephant were useless as symbols. Nude indeed he was at first but several letters apprized me of the fact that the figure offended the sensibilities of too many. Without lessening his usefulness for my purpose, I gave him shorts and the ability to turn around. I dare say that...
Muralist Rivera contributed a series of brilliant panels in true fresco of oppressed Indians, galloping bandits, donkey-faced professors, starving peons. One panel expressed Muralist Rivera's opinion of dictatorships, showed a gawping creature with the Roosevelt smile, Mussolini chin, Hitler brow and mustache, waving a flag composed of the Nazi, U. S. and Japanese colors. Below him an officer in Mexican uniform with a calf's head was dancing with an Indian woman...