Word: milquetoasts
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...Once-confident, once-buoyant TIME has become a Caspar Milquetoast, shuddering in fear at every shadow, bewailing each news item as a foreboding of fresh evils yet to come. Read for yourself the news of the world in the issue of Dec. 31, as seen through TIME'S dim, grey-tinted spectacles...
...Caspar Milquetoast is the only character Cartoonist Webster has ever given a name to-and Caspar,* with appropriate shyness, sneaked into the strip as a space filler. The rest of Webster's bald-headed bores, thin, puzzled wives, and freckle-faced kids need no name; they are, when they hit the mark-as they often do-Everyman...
Right to Left. H. T. Webster insists that Milquetoast is a self-portrait. Short of perhaps Joseph Stalin, it would be difficult to think of any man who looks less like Milquetoast than his creator. Webster carries all of his 6 ft. 3 in. without either the cringing or the exaggerated erectness of the man who is uneasy in this world. His face is handsome, ruddy and unlined, his blue eyes are direct and uncomplicated...
Since then he has worked for the Herald Tribune, and through the Tribune Syndicate his daily cartoons are published in some 60 papers, his Sunday Milquetoast strip in 20. Their combined circulation is around ten million,, not counting uncountable" millions who read their papers at second hand. Webster's probable income: about $80,000 a year...
...Webster once wrote to his friend Franklin P. Adams, who had misspelled it Casper in his column: "Mr. Milquetoast has spoken to me about your spelling of his name. He says that his family has always spelled it with an a, but that they are notoriously bad spellers and you are probably right...