Word: funsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated (TIME, March 18), art editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...
Fritz, dear old Fritz McCarthy, to whom I would soon say goodbye forever, had one of his thoughts. "Wait a year," he said with the roguish twinkle that gained him the reputation of "funster" around camp. He strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign...