Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
Million-Dollar Baby. Gimbels reported that Baby Sparkle Plenty, a doll version of one of Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...
...British not bought more machines? They had not been able to buy them. U.S. manufacturers were filling a big backlog of domestic orders. Britain, for example, tried this year to find 100 heavy-duty tractors, could get less than six. Searches for strip-mining excavating equipment and woodworking machinery drew a blank...
Spinach v. Gin. Americans who wonder what existentialism is about will find a simplified translation in the comic strip Popeye, whose "I am what I am!" is existentialism stripped of its dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy...
Biographer Stryker's strip job, for all his courtroom ardor, is disappointing. At such length that tedium is the payoff, he uses conventional history to sketch in the political background for Erskine's cases. Thus he and the reader lose sight of Erskine for pages at a time. The mighty barrister emerges as less a man than a disembodied voice making noble utterances...