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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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