Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair in which appeared a cartoon of His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven...
...Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor, and he had placed the Son of Heaven in an attitude which made Japanese blood boil. What, Japanese wanted to know, was President Roosevelt going to do about it? A cablegram...
When newshawks got through to Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair at Long Island's damp Lido Country Club, he was mystified. "The title of our publication denotes a frivolous, satirical periodical," he explained...
...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan might be through. Instead, though his importance in Fox was somewhat lessened by the introduction of outside producers like Sol Wurtzel and Jesse Lasky, he continued in power, made such successes as Cavalcade and State Fair...