Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper lore is the legend of a young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...fishermen and five factory hands, including the boss. They have very sweetly allowed us to camp in the lee of the factory, by the scanty water supply. The factory itself is not very impressive, consisting mostly of gunny sacking spread over a slight framework, with here and there a strip of echoing sheet iron. Their crayfish, however, are much more attractive, being a very noble sort of langouste. . . (Eight days later)--By this time, I am not so sure of its nobility, but is at least a very solid bourgeois...
Sooky (Paramount) is a sequel to Skippy, directed by Norman Taurog, with Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan impersonating the principal characters in Percy Crosby's famed comic strip. Small Coogan's most notable characteristic is a treble voice so high that at times it amounts to" a whistle. Cooper has a thoughtful little face, often pinched by childish melancholy; in addition, he is a superb actor. This picture has the defect of most sequels, in that episodes similar to the ones which seemed spontaneous in Skippy, now appear to be part of a formula. They are still affecting...
...course strip to the waist while she, Alice, sat in the balcony. This mushy apocryphal tale will be "scotched" by the writer in the proper place and was evidently taken and elaborated from another author who has, or will, also correct it and has written me acknowledging his error. But to me this is ridiculously inaccurate...