Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Currier & Ives, famed poster lithographers (TIME, Nov. 25), printed a cartoon of Lincoln, being ridden on a rail to a lunatic asylum (the White House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall...
...finesse that Belasco taught Lenore Ulric, but makes up for it to some extent by her vivacity, her Mexican accent, and the songs she sings occasionally in a voice sharp as a cactus, shrill and toothy, but somehow attractive. Best shot: Bull Montana wiping his nose with his shirt sleeve...