Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, the issue is decidedly hopeful. There are not more than two or three drawings whose only claim to funniness is the use of the Mutt-and-Jeff noses, and there are an unusually large number of contributions, mostly relegated to the latter half, which reveal acquaintance with what is going on at Harvard...
...morning last week, the countenance of William R. Timmons, Executive Secretary of the Greenville (S. C.) Chamber of Commerce grew stern. He had viewed the doings of Mutt...
Jeff as reported one morning by the fecund pen of Artist Bud Fisher in The New York World. Mutt was seen abed, sleeping off the effects of a strenuous evening. Little Jeff was up, dressed, eager to explore the city in which they had stopped. Artist Fisher had indicated clearly that it was a city, not a town. He had indicated, moreover, that it was a city noted as a cotton center. That was what Little Jeff was going to investigate-cotton. Artist Fisher had named the city, too. "Greenville, N. C.," he called it-and that...
...Timmons sat down and wrote a letter to The World, explaining that Mutt and Jeff had indubitably visited Greenville, S. C., not Greenville, N. C. Upon looking the matter up, The World found Mr. Timmons to be perfectly right. Greenville, N. C., is a mere town, on Tar River, noted only for tobacco, cotton not at all. Greenville, S. C., is a city with a cathedral, several collegiate institutions, cotton mills no end. Said Mr. Timmons: "I am wondering if you could not call the attention of your readers to the fact that this error has occurred...
...Galveston, Mutt, a black and tan Airedale terrier, chained on the running board of a car, was missing after the car had been wrecked and its occupants killed, was found near his home with his coat turned grey from fright...