Word: ignatz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland have a tactful way of saying that "Pictures really don't do justice to his appearance." Not so speak and write the President's enemies. Therefore the Government announced last week its drafting of a bill providing that "attacks on the President's personal appearance shall be punishable by imprisonment up to five years...
Observers recalled that Mme. Moscicki, wife of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Polish Y. M. C. A., an organization built up since the War with funds contributed from the U. S., though there are today only five U. S. citizens employed by the Polish...
...Ignatz Mouse...
...kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock-scaling mouse of Mother Goose nor Alice's dormouse nor the mouse that did not stir the night before Christmas nor even Ignatz Mouse* himself, have histories to compare with the lemmings', who date back to Norse mythology and further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that...
...Most popular U. S. comic strip character, widely syndicated creation of Cartoonist George Herriman. At his partner-in-comedy, Krazy Kat, he throws hundreds of black ink bricks annually, his aim being uncanny accuracy. As a brick hits Krazy Kat, Ignatz often cries, "Phooey...