Word: warâ
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...Sundays does the fatherly Times condescend to publish "features." Cartoonist Marcus regularly does portraits for the theatrical section and cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War???"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett ("Polly and her Pals") and Editor Bertie Charles Forbes of Forbes' Magazine, with whom he plays checkers. Cartoonist Marcus used to work...
...indeed make war???like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...world's stadium is crowded. The eyes of the world are looking on. The victory will be for humanity. But this is not a game. It is a fight. It is a war??? war to the hilt...
...baker dies, true to a fanaticism for cremation. His deathbed plea cleanses Karl and he pushes the Crucifixion to an immense conclusion, only to have it denounced as a plagiarism on the day's jazz. Then more irony, the War???and Karl home after it with the sorrows of Germany in his pale face, needing convalescence like the world...
...cannot reconcile Jesus Christ and war???that is the essence of the matter. That is the challenge which today should stir the conscience of Christendom...