Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superman of Nietzsche." But L'Humanité could not wait for the following Wednesday. Twenty-four hours later the women's page screamed: "Mothers, beware of American illustrated papers . . . these drawings, these comics." Hearst comics were the worst, but all were...
...L'Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...Chat." Just how insidiously ubiquitous U.S. comics could be was something even the editors of L'Humanité had apparently not realized by last week. In its customary position in the same issue was the latest installment of the adventures of "Félix le Chat," drawn by U.S. Artist Otto Messner, supplied with French-text balloons, and syndicated by Hearst's King Features...
...seemed likely to win by a tiny margin, but the outcome depended on the disgruntled M.R.P. (Catholic Republicans), which lost heavily in the elections, and which also opposed last week's Cabinet cuts. The cuts were derided by a Communist writer in L'Humanité and by an anti-Communist writer in L'Epoque, both of whom by coincidence hit on the same sarcastic phrase: "A poultice on a wooden...
...Squash Courts." Though the U.S. and British zones have been merged since last winter, there has not been time enough to erase national idiosyncrasies. In some aspects the British zone is as British as Weston super Mare. Approaching the medieval city gate of Lübeck, one can scarcely see the gate for the sign on it: TO THE SQUASH COURTS...