Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earning him $2,000 a month (from the New York Herald), while his passionate, often indiscriminate hero worship poured out in a gush of famed personality sketches for The New Yorker, Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess, was "on the plane with Shakespeare and Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them...
...address was broadcast by loudspeaker to overflow crowds that thronged the Yard, most standing in silent homage. Dean Sperry concluded with the quotation of Walt Whitman's elegy to President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed...
Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...
Shapely senoritas, south-of-the-borderish tunes that send you away humming, and easy-on-the-eyes technicolor partly atone for incoherent plot and questionable symbolism in Walt Disney's current full-length animated feature, "The Three Caballeros," but the-final product falls short of the usual Disney standard...
...young U.S. Army technical adviser, "doesn't give them the drive, the personal ambition, the incentive that ours does-they have to talk to so many people before anything gets done." The Government is everywhere, even determining what mildly dirty jokes may be told at a banquet. "Walt Disney is more often than not in the Soviet doghouse since Mickey Mouse frequently deviates from the party line...