Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press section of TIME, July 18 the recent portrayal of President Roosevelt in the Joe Palooka comic strip is suspected of being the first comic .strip portrayal of an incumbent President...
Toughest spot in His Britannic Majesty's Indian Empire is barren, mountainous Waziristan, a 10,000-sq. mi. strip of northwest Indian territory lying against the border of Afghanistan. Its fierce tribes have never submitted to British rule. There last week, as they have been doing for two years, grousing British Army officers and sweating troops scrambled over unfriendly mountains on the trail of an elusive, red-bearded, turbaned firebrand, Mirza Ali Khan, the Fakir...
...sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like...
Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
...found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot; later expressing his interest in Joe's defending the championship...