Word: jeffe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Harry C. ("Bud") Fisher, famed comic artist of Mutt and Jeff; to La Comtesse Aedita de Beaumont, "winner of a Paris beauty contest...
...certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family. I addressed envelopes and painted wagons. I sold the Lampoon for "Alex," and I wrote an article about the humor in "Mutt and Jeff" for the Boston American, I went without lunch sometimes and occasionally I wore two rubbers that belonged on the left foot. I rode an old bicycle to save carfare, for I hated debt and under no consideration could I bring myself to ask assistance from the loan fund...
...Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke...
...from Mutt and Jeff to a "Good Bad Woman," yet Mr. James M. Call draws an analogy between them that should prove more than amusing. An editorial writer on the World, he dares to denounce in the current Nation his journal's advocacy of play censorship. Art may take it or leave it; and if he wants amusement without art, that, too, is up to him. Mr. Cain has brought the argument to the World's own doorstep. Its comic strips lay no claim to artistic intent, and they very frequently lanse into coarseness. If burlesque shows amuse "sailors, soldiers...
...whole, the issue is decidedly hopeful. There are not more than two or three drawings whose only claim to funniness is the use of the Mutt-and-Jeff noses, and there are an unusually large number of contributions, mostly relegated to the latter half, which reveal acquaintance with what is going on at Harvard...