Word: rollin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aladjalow, Peter Arno, Peggy Bacon, Bruce Bairnsfather, Ralph Barton, Franklin Collier, Miguel Covarrubias, Adolph Dehni Do Miskey, Ding, Leonard Dove, Fruch, Bud Fisher, Haupt, John Held, Jr., Helen E. Hoskinson, Rea Irvin, Karass, Rollin Kirby, Kronengold, Edward Nagle, Alan Odie, Gardner Rea, Gluyas Williams, Alexander Calder, and D. T. Carlisle...
Merchant Marine?Louis Rollin...
Another reversal this year was the cartoon prize. The selecting committee chose "Women Taken in Bootlegging" by Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The board decided on "Tammany" by Rollin Kirby of the New York World...
...Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize...
...Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby...