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Word: mutt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comic strip page, above "Moon Mullins," "Reg'lar Fellers," "the Gumps" and "Mutt & Jeff," the Herald-Dispatch ran in Annie's place a big black banner: DELETED! FOR VIOLATION OF READER TRUST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Veiled, Vindictive Annie | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...State or been to a circus can fail to recognize the authenticity of Curry's subjects. Latest Curry is a two-panel mural for the Westport High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Scene | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt and Van Sweringen who swore that their deal was a perfectly routine business transaction in which the bonds happened to be bought one week and sold the next. Said Mr. Van Sweringen: "These were open and shut purchases and sales of properties for cash. Now perfectly simple transactions are being construed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Window Dressers | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mutt Show | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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