Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered, sneered, gloomed, acquired a pair...
After twelve years on the Baltimore Sun, which opposes both Roosevelt and Landon, Edmund Duffy is disposed to regard politics as a joke. This year he has drawn a wry-mouthed Franklin Roosevelt and a pompous, silk-hatted GOP with equal indifference, saved his enthusiasm for the cause of Peace...
Copley Plaza--Silk hat, white tie, and tails are symbolic of the best to be had. If your pocketbook is bulging, try the Sheraton Room...
...Ramona (see above) the villains are land-grabbers. This time they are silk-breeched Colonial Virginians who legislate an act appropriating the Kentucky land which the great Boone appropriated from the Indians. With 40 families at his buck skin back, Boone treks over the Cumberlands, founds the village of Boonesborough. The land is as fertile as the Red skins are hostile. Stout Boone protects the settlers in many a brush with Indians, kills more than one warrior, narrowly misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This...
...examine the interesting methods of any or of all the University's activities, to support or condemn Students Leagues, Unions, Democracies, Societies, or Associations, to discover rare and little known secretaries in obscure offices, to call upon full professors in their most beautiful red silk pajamas and have them like it, or, sometimes, dislike it--in short to examine with more or less impunity whatever takes one's fancy or irks the sense of justice: all such should drop in on Wednesday night at the CRIMSON building and consider entering the editorial competition beginning on that date...