Word: dumbo
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...blank crystal clear, it gets its propaganda across with the anesthetic blessing of laughter and great good humor. As cinema, The New Spirit is a most effective job. It has a brand-new patriotic melody, The Yankee Doodle Spirit (composed in one day by Oliver Wallace, who did the Dumbo tunes), which is a humdinger...
...Dumbo (Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, Mrs. Dumbo; TIME...
...TIME'S Dec. 29 story on Dumbo, which designated that blue-eyed baby elephant "Mammal-of-the-Year," TIME quoted Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla, Disney staff artist who conceived Dumbo's face, form and character. "Most of the expressions and mannerisms," said Artist Tytla, "I got from my own kid. There's nothing theatrical about a two-year...
When I am approached by an eager acquaintance who asks, "Is it true your child resembles an elephant, Mrs. Tytla?" (with the same expressions, incidentally, as the gossiping elephants in Dumbo), I am compelled, like poor Mrs. Jumbo, to waddle off, as I mutter to myself, "A wit, no doubt." However, being fully aware of the havoc that can be wrought ... on an impressionable small child, I am appealing to you, as a mother, to right this terrible wrong. (Besides, we have no space left in which to store the tons of peanuts that continue to arrive daily.) Therefore...
...Dumbo (Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, Jim Crow, Mrs. Jumbo; TIME...