Word: milding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creator of such familiar personalities as The Toonerville Skipper, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less familiar but equally profitable creation of Cartoonist Fox known as Reynard Corp...
...related but separate problems. One was exactly how to handle the factual changes caused by Reichs-führer Hitler's annexation of Austria. The other was how to let the world know exactly how the U. S. felt about it. Last week, Tennessee's drawling, mild-mannered Cordell Hull solved both with characteristic common sense...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
Into the offices of Maryland's State Unemployment Service in Baltimore walked Nettie Mudd Monroe, widowed daughter of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the mild country doctor who set the leg of Assassin John Wilkes Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When...
Died. Kubec Glasmon, 40, Polish-born screen writer; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A druggist during Prohibition on Chicago's gang-infested West Side, short, mild-mannered Kubec Glasmon teamed up with an ex-newshawk, John Bright, wrote a series of gangster movies, Public Enemy, Smart Money, Blonde Crazy, Taxi...