Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...game clutch of victories this fall. "I've seen these crises over and over," he smiles. "They'll talk about subsidization. A student body ought to recognize that there's no real glory in a team that's been bought and paid for. It doesn't mean a thing unless it grows out of the actual life of the institution...
This is not a serious protest against the Harvard food situation. I would doubtless have been well-satisfied with our fare and prices if I hadn't seen what Yale offers. What I do mean to say is, if Yale can do so well, we ought to be able to too. William Davenport...
Wrote Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther A. Weigle: "The separation of church and state in this country was intended not to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not to impair but to protect religious faith. ... It does not mean that church and state, being mutually free, may not cooperate with one another. And it does not mean that the state acknowledges no God, or that the state is exempt from the moral law wherewith God sets the bounds of justice for nations as well as for individuals...