Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the first century A. D., Korea sent a cultural mission to Japan to civilize the naked people. Naturally the Chinese and Koreans looked upon them as "dwarf barbarians". Nevertheless, long before Hitler, the samurai got the contemptuous idea that they were a divine and superior race so that they must rule the universe...
...farms and factories, its resources, its possibilities, its culture, its dispossessed. In that issue the statistics of strength were so many they ran over the top of the page. They gushed up like the oil of Texas: the U.S. had mines, trained men, machines, land, power & light to dwarf the rest of the world. All the charts showed a satisfying line in which U.S. production of something shot way above anybody else's; there would be a little wavy line way down at the bottom of the page for the rest of the world and a curve swooping right...
...Simon & Schuster, $2). Low, who has cartooned for 39 of his 50 years, declared war on the Axis long before the Allies did, now doubles as a London fire warden.* German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who mortally hates & fears Low's cartoons (note the clubfooted, degenerate dwarf at lower right), had a brief revenge last year: Low came down with German measles...
...Word (conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart...
...small Jouet des Plots, stitching along the west coast of Africa; his business was to buy up wild animals for the circuses, zoos, rich amateurs of Europe. He acquired, among other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever epidemic. Demaison gives such incidents their due; but he makes his less...