Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt's National Resources Committee last week reported that the U. S. population will reach a minimum peak of 139,457,000 in 1960 (based on low birth rate, medium death rate, no immigration), or a maximum peak of 174,330,000 in 1980 (based on high birth rate, low death rate, no immigration). Between 1935 and 1975, persons 20 to 44 years old will increase by 6% , persons...
...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...
...Low Again shows him in predicaments inglorious enough to bring about the fall of any government. His eyebrows upped with vague uneasiness, he hands a match to Mussolini, who is lighting a bomb under his chair. Perched beside Colonel Blimp on a raging volcano, he spurns Litvinoff's assistance in putting out the fire: "Sorry," he says, as the flames roast his rear, "but we don't want to burn our fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something...
...LOW AGAIN-Cresset Press...
...libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...