Word: hooligan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None knows better than Publisher Hearst the power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
...Cartoonists of America made Illustrator Gibson one of their guests of honor last week. Two others were 70-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, whose masterpiece was Happy Hooligan; and William Allen Rogers, "dean of political cartoonists...
...What adjective is popularly applied to Happy Hooligan's brother...
...half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
Cried Il Popolo d'ltalia, official organ of Premier Mussolini, scoring M. Vanderyelde, Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, for refusing to shake hands with Dictator Benito, at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26): "Vandervelde is a hooligan in diplomacy ... a Social Democrat who fouts the established canons of diplomatic courtesy, which are scrupulously observed by even the Russian Bolsheviki. . . . Fortunately Emile Vandervelde is an insignificant person. . . . [But] the Locarno episode will not be forgotten...