Word: mechan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young's Blondie, J. R. Williams' homely cowhands and mechan ics in Out Our Way, and Gluyas Williams' middle-aged suburbanites - you have about exhausted the field. Yet, characteristically, Webster disagrees with the critics who think today's sexed-up, thrill-happy comics are a menace to adolescent morals. Says he : "I used to hide my dime novels...
Evarts, assisted by Taylor, drew first blood with a goal late in the opening canto. St. Paul's evened the score at 5:02 in the second-period, with Harmon assisted by Mechan and Ordway, but Harvard drew into the load eight minutes later when Beebe, assisted by Benton, netted the puck. But the schoolboys' two scores early in the last period spelled defeat for the Yardlings, and they were never able to turn the tide...