Word: hoosegow
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...personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...
Having been a newspaper cartoonist in Philadelphia and Washington, "Wally" Wallgren was appointed Regimental Sign Painter; and for nearly nine months, punctuated by spells in the hoosegow, he ranged the Western Front painting "Latrine" and "Officers Only" signs. Meantime, Guy T. Viskniskki, looking for a cartoonist for his projected A. E. F. paper, The Stars and Stripes, heard about Wally, decided he wanted...
...special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear in 22 U. S. daily papers, nine Sunday papers through the McNaught Syndicate. Herman, created in Wally's own image, will soon find himself in the army meeting his old comrades, among them Ross, as a supply sergeant, and Woollcott, as a medical sergeant...
...sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow and then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search oi her runaway Peke, almost decided to jilt the strong, silent Martin because his father ate sauerkraut and split his infinitives. So far we were for young Hope? strong, silent yokels being...