Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cartoonists do not all belong to the same club. Cartoonists Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp), who draws Li'I Abner, and Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...
...Kiss the Blood Off My Hands; Gerald Butler...
...after a Y.F.C. rally in Olympia, Wash., said: "This is what I hoped would happen in America." But not all Americans are so sure. Some view with alarm the pious trumpeting of the Hearst press on Y.F.C.'s behalf, also the support of rightish. rabble-rousing "nationalists" like Gerald L. K. Smith. Of this kind of criticism, Torrey Johnson says: "Maybe he [Hearst] saw a million people across the country were going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten a dime from...
...behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...
...Gerald Campbell, British Minister in Washington and resident of the U.S. for 24 years, decided where to go when he retires next week: Britain's housing shortage, said he cheerfully, practically forced him to spend the winter in a little cottage near San Diego...