Word: porker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...
...Louis Swift Jr., whose husband is one of the porker-packing Swifts, got holy Ned from the Chicago Animal Welfare League for placing a pig in peril. She put a pig in a pen at the Galloping Hills Horseshow, and blue-blooded jumpers jumped in & out. Soon a humane officer turned up at the Swift mansion-"stormed into the house and was very rude," said Mrs. Swift. He got the gate. "There's no one who loves animals more than I do," cried Mrs. Swift to the press. "I wouldn't hurt that pig for anything-took...
...Montreal they found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
...loving-cup tempest over the world capital seethed and bubbled. One group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...
...Boston Library did not hang some of its more raffish Rowlandson items. But the show contained such characteristic works as At Close Range, a deft landscape containing a stray huntsman spying on a lover's embrace, and the farcical Pig in a Poke, in which a juicy porker tries to escape pursuing humanity through the heavy legs of an equally porcine woman...