Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important part of a cartoon is of course, the idea. Its presentation, while important is secondary. There are three main divisions into which cartoons are classified as to their subject-matter naturally fall. There is the political cartoon, the straight narrative cartoon, usually centered around some joke, and the cartoon which is a commentary on some point which is true to life. It is the last group that I place my work...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...
...Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...
...contemporaries in fact, detested him. "The spirit that lighted the fires of the Inquisition," wrote Ezra Heywood, eccentric socialist, victim of Comstock's fury. He was called "an incorporated conscience," "an ogre to innocent girls." George Bernard Shaw said: "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States." He must, though, have had some friends, for he notes, "For Christmas I received a pair of slippers, a mustache cup and saucer and a gold toothpick...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...