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When New Zealander Low came to London after the first World War, he found the art of newspaper cartooning still mired in Victorian politeness, with no more bite to it than a cup of cambric tea. "It was thought scandalous to hold statesmen up to ridicule," said Low, and he proceeded to do just that for the London Evening Star, scandalizing statesmen, his editor and the United Kingdom. "Ah well," he said to early protesters. "I am a nuisance dedicated to sanity...
...British general praying to God for victory "before the Americans come." Also, using thirty-one songs from the war period, although an effective stimulant to nostalgia, reduces the area of irony so important to satire, leaving the worn jokes and mesmerizing slides and lights. Basically, Brecht with little bite...
...some 25,000 other happy hunters fanned out across the 900-sq.-mi. valley last week for the opening of the month-long dove season, an annual bar-and-feathering ritual that features frolics on both sides of the Mexican border as well as bagfuls of succulent, bite-sized Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (legal limit; ten Zenaiduras per day per hunter). Before the four dove-taking weeks are up, some hundred thousand hunters will have bagged 4,000,000 birds. But it won't be easy...
...Heaven save us from a jamboree," cried the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York. But he need not have feared; the Second Anglican Congress in Toronto opened last week with more than its share of bite and fight. Billed as a family gathering of the 18 autonomous churches that make up the Anglican Communion, the Toronto Congress amply demonstrated that the family today is one, big, and far from happy with its place in the world...
Although the Sherif had asserted that Ware, in the hasty trip to Camilla hospital, had been slumped over, Minter had him sitting up straight. When asked to demonstrate how Ware, from an erect position, could bite the Sheriff, Minter leaned stiffly to the left and with a quick jerk of his head took a chomp...