Word: munchausens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handbook referred to in TIME of Dec. 1, telling how Homer, Dickens, Kipling, Mark Twain, et al. would have liked to work on the Chicago Tribune, I might also mention a couple of chaps who doubtless would have felt right at home on the Tribune staff: Ananias and Baron Munchausen...
...Charlie Chaplin's long-awaited "production No. 6" features the little comedian in the role of: 1. Lemuel Gulliver. 2. Baron Munchausen. 3. Hitler. 4. Don Quixote. 5. A Vice-President of the U. S. named Throttlebottom...
...celebrated tales of Baron Munchausen (published in 1785) are excellent and resourceful lies, but they lack conviviality. This could never be said of the stories of F. Dogbody, Surgeon, late of His Majesty's Navy, who passed his evenings after 1817 in the Cheerful Tortoise, Will Tunn Prop., Portsmouth. Doctor Dogbody's stories concerning his peg leg and how he acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody...
DELVING down into a close printed jumble of old inaccessible almanacs, Richard M. Dorson '37 has selected and edited in an extremely readable way the best of the Davy Crockett stories. That fantastic legendary figure, a combination of an epic hero and a coarse, earthy frontier representation of Baron Munchausen, is more than just an early example of American humor at its broadest and most extravagant. The Crockett Almanacs, with their crazy exaggerations and crudities and all their local color, have real literary value and show the frontier spirit at its best and worst...