Word: nemo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lucky indeed is the U.S. small businessman who neatly straddled war problems and priorities with the simple formula of 50% peace business, 50% war business. Such a man is Long Island Girdlemaker Max Kops, whose Nemo Corset Co. last week was making WAAC girdles, Army flare parachutes and Medical Corps supplies on one hand, doing a flourishing peacetime business on the other...
...Hotel, Atlantic City's famed, 27-year-old landmark, was one of the resort's four hotels (plus huge Municipal Convention Hall) taken over by the Army last week, stripped of its lush furnishings and converted into soldiers' barracks. Luxurious as a palace in a Little Nemo dream, its interiors resembling a 1915 movie's conception of the height of luxury, it will be crammed with 2,000 Air Corps cadets, who will sleep on Army cots in the Traymore's 638 rooms...
...holidays. Nature became a sort of art gallery. Baedeker became the bible of escape. Verne's own passion for geography was romantic; his love of the sea and the undersea, which his contemporaries shared, is generally recognized today as a death wish (see cut); his greatest creation, Captain Nemo, is simply Lord Byron in a diving suit...
...found one. Bertram, written by a onetime Chicago newspaperman, Paul Thomas Gilbert, drawn by Anne Stossel, is reminiscent of such early comics for children as Little Nemo, displaced in recent years by strips for adults. An adventurous, gentle boy who loves animals gets involved with tapirs, kangaroos, dinosaurs, Bertram has appeared in four books by Author Gilbert. They sell around 10,000 copies a year, and for five years Bertram stories have appeared monthly in Child Life...
...baldspot, turned his last handspring in the pages of Mr. Munsey's New York Press. A war-minded public scarcely noticed the passing of Foxy Grandpa, one of the great comic strip characters of an age that rejoiced also over the antics of Happy Hooligan, Buster Brown, Little Nemo...