Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should and does know city rooms such as the one in a corner of which his play begins and ends...
...readers of the New York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised...
Reporter: Sure, I know who to call up. All right . . . Operator. Get me J. Chester Goofus, will you? You've got his number, I think. . . . Hello, I want Mr. Goofus. Mr. Goofus...
This is the News. We're getting up a little story on that New York World cartoon, Mr. Goofus, and we want to know what you think about it. No, not that one. The one we reprinted the other day, with the two yeggs shooting at each other. Yes, that's the one. . . . You haven't thought about it? Well, we're very anxious to have a statement from you, Mr. Goofus...
...show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more big stomachs caused by the wearing of a belt than any other one thing I know of, because if one doesn't stick one's stomach out, something embarrassing is going to happen...