Word: wart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people will write books about...
...pathetic rather than funny. The people it depicts are simple, worried U. S. proletarians: weedy, bedraggled cowhands, tintypical Americans of a generation ago. Some of them (the shambling, baggy Negro Big Ick, the fiddle-case-footed shop foreman "Bull of the Woods," the blowzy, ingeniously self-thwarting moppet "Worry Wart") are as real to newspaper readers as their own cousins. Its homely humanity, bleak realism, and salty, Mark Twainish humor have attracted the attention of Americana-collecting highbrows, have earned for its author the title "Will Rogers of the Comic Strip...
...Williams himself seldom goes to town, hasn't visited a big city in nearly ten years, principally because he hates to change from his blue jeans to store clothes. Last week, while city readers were chuckling over his latest pictures of Big Ick and Worry Wart, Jim Williams was busy with a branding iron, sizzling his K4 and Lazy C Bar brand into the hides of this spring's crop of heifers...
...made them, Stradivarius, the wizardry master of Cremona. Somehow, he pictured him as looking like Pinnochio's Geppetto--small and wizened, with a rapidly thinning shock of white hair, bright rabbit-like eyes, wire-rimmed glasses set on the end of a very sharp nose, and a brown wart with two grey hairs protruding from the end of a long, sharp chin--Vag was very certain of the wart...
...Actor Massey applied his stage nose & wart (a half-hour operation) during the afternoon, appeared at the Chicago Civic Opera House (before an invited broadcast audience of 2,500) in black tie, was at the microphones for almost the full half-hour. At the finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...