Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, a spiritualist had put him in touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
Guided by this philosophy, Mikkola always dusts off the welcome mat for first year men. Next week, he'll hold a meeting for erstwhile pavement pounders at his headquarters in Dillon Field House. Practices are held on what is known as the University Handicap Course, a cinder strip running parallel to the Charles River as far as the Metropolitan Police Station. For meet competition, both Freshman and Varsity squads move to Dorchester's Franklin Park...
...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...
...very last outpost of fine, imaginative illustration in America is the comic strip. That's where all the great illustrators...
Disquieting Tributes. Since the first one appeared eight years ago, a generation of book reviewers has ridiculed the Lanny Budd novels. Nothing is easier-sometimes it seems that they are filled with nothing but improbabilities and inconsistencies, with no subtler characterizations than those of a good comic strip. Yet reading the entire 6,237 pages gives the disquieting impression that the trouble with Sinclair's fiction is not that it is improbable, but that too much of it is all too literally true. Nothing in the account of Lanny's dealing with Roosevelt, for example, quite comes...