Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...
When bloodhounds (antisyphilitic "magic bullets") are set upon Corky, he realizes that he must make a mad dash through the body, decides that the quickest way is to get into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...
Maybe it's just the silly season, but it looked Tuesday night as if Harvard had gone publicity mad. Two editors of the CRIMSON were chatting pleasantly and privately with Miss Chilli Williams in her dressing room backstage at the Wilbur Theatre when two members of the Dramatic Club were ushered in. A few minutes later, three members of the Jubilee Committee have into sight. Blinded by polka-dots, everybody had an angle and Miss Williams took all bids...
...Navy was far from appeased. Boiling mad, Navymen lost no time in making their feelings known. In Dallas, Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, commandant of the Eighth Naval District, came up swinging with a below-the-belt punch. Cried he: "It is my belief that when the next war comes we will need the finest Army and Air Forces in the world, because with a greatly weakened Navy, submerged under Army control, the fighting will be on our own shores...
...Charmed, or Get Out. Boiling mad, sarcastic, bitter, Editor Ingersoll warns that the British will try to "manipulate" us into World War III, if it comes and if they can. Although World War II was definitely our business, and the U.S. "did a great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences...