Word: thurberism
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...following, all Juniors, are members of the Committee: Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. Robert Homans Donald McD. Thurber, Ralph H. Cutler, Jr., Arthur Iselin, Jr., T. Ridgway Macy, Jr., and Alexandre W. G. de Pourtales...
...illustrations, Mrs. McKelway got one of her ex-husband's colleagues, James Thurber, who himself looks some-what like a collie, with a strain of English sheep dog. His familiar, frustrated drawings aim less at anatomical correctness than at psychological accuracy...
...Quito Express), but to adults he was known as a Vogue artist and as manager and decorator of Manhattan's small, expensive Hapsburg restaurant. With his second and much lengthier autobiographical volume, Life Class, Bemelmans again writes as perfect an equivalent of his ingenuously sophisticated drawings as James Thurber does...
...first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans...
...Delos Thurber of Southern California broke the high jump record when he nipped over the bar at 6 ft., 6⅝in., erasing the five-year mark...