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...Lord Plushbottom." Not the least of the elements of the power that exists in the Mideast is Admiral Holloway himself, a "black-shoe sailor," (i.e., no airman), whose square, salt-cured features are often belied by a suave, diplomatic air that sometimes spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command...
Died. Frank Henry Willard, 64, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate cartoonist, creator of derby-hatted urchin Kayo, somnolent Lord Plushbottom and other cronies of banjo-eyed Moon Mullins in the long-running (since 1924) comic strip; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
Next Mr. Bennett considered the doings of Frank Willard's banjo-eyed, derby-hatted Moon Mullins and his friends Kayo, Emmy and Lord Plushbottom. "When you get down to the others," Mr. Bennett grumbled, "I do not know whether Moon Mullins adds greatly to the store of knowledge of young and growing children. I am not an authority on that...
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