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Word: munchausen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played a major part, with "Ropy" loudly boasting that he would "pay nobody" and " 'Erbie" trying to still his outcries. In most of the Opper pictures, which were supplemented with an irrelevant editorial text. National Chairman Sanders could be found inanely interviewing such fabulous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Baron Munchausen and Robinson Crusoe on " 'Erbie's chances." Inferior as art, the Opper cartoons, by their absurdity and persistence, have been highly effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Cartoons: Potent Pictures | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

...MUNCHAUSEN, BARON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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