Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walt Disney has never considered himself an artist. Nevertheless, ever since Disney invented a good mouse opera, the high-brow art world has beaten a path to his door. Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art Museums have hung stills of the Big Bad Wolf and of Snow White's vultures...
Wrote Pundit Dorothy Thompson last week of Walt Disney's Fantasia...
...moralists were licked, the novel triumphant. Then it became transfigured with Uplift-Mesmerism, Mormonism, Bloomerism, above all, Teetotalism and Abolitionism. As villain, the boozer rivaled the seducer, now plying his wenches with animal magnetism and transcendentalism, instead of sighs and potions. Among temperance novelists was Walt Whitman, who confided that he wrote the "rot" with the help of several bottles of port. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was promptly answered by at least 14 pro-slavery novels, including Aunt Phillis's Cabin. Deep in their weeping willows and haunted groves, early U. S. novelists...
Harvard is rather weak in the sprints, having only Captain Frannie Powers, Lonnie Stowell, and Dave Stearns as Varsity holdovers. Pete Robinson, Bob Sceery, Tom Godfrey, Walt Downing and Tom Shrewsbury may help out the situation somewhat, but it will take time to bring most of them up to Eastern intercollegiate League standards. IIf none of them make the grade, the jobs may be appropriated by the above-mentioned white or backstroker Dick Harris...
Last week the National Tuberculosis Association took a cue from Walt Disney, released the first animated cartoon on public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...