Word: walt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
Matching this piece was Walt Whitman's "Dirge for two Veterans" set to music by Holst, conducted by "Doc" with lightness and precision which it is his gift to draw from his singers without any sacrifice of emotional force...
...humanity has had a wrong conception of the bird of prey. Now take Shakespeare. He used the owl to create tragedy and gloom. That sort of thing made the public associate the owl with a graveyard, but I'm wiping all that out. I am sort of the Walt Whitman of Canada, although not so risque, as I deal with birds...
...President Cowen's inventiveness had not deserted him. In addition he was blessed with a pair of shrewd receivers named Worcester Bouck and Mandel Frankel. The receivers negotiated a bank loan. Then the company approached Walt Disney Productions of Hollywood, secured permission to make a Mickey Mouse handcar to scoot around Lionel tracks. During the winter 235,000 were sold at $1 apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific...
...citizen were asked to name the greatest U. S. writer of the 19th Century, he would be apt to choose, according to his literary politics, Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Walt Whitman. But a European would probably name Edgar Allan Poe. Like Melville and Whitman, Poe was not recognized by the U. S. as a great writer until Europe had guaranteed his genius. Says Biographer Pope-Hennessy: "He has been claimed as the founder of the 'Surrealiste' school, and in his unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model...