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Rire, Paris comic paper, takes a slightly different view. In a double cartoon called Tracts et Tractions (Ideals and Deals), it shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...
...best cartoon ($500) ? to Rollin Kirby of The New York World for the cartoon Nen's from the Outside World...
They told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
...grave morality of Vanity Fair, did not seem to disdain a coarser style in his personal correspondence. There is a letter in the collection addressed to one Carmichael Smyth, giving the news of Thackeray's return to England. The author has illustrated it with a most unusual cartoon depicting a family lying in various stages of unconciousness about a parlor. He explained in the letter, that the scene is his idea of the reaction of Mr. Smyth's family to the unexpected news, and represents mother having hysterics, sister falling off the piano, and father falling into...
Harvard has long contented itself with a legendary mascot to avoid the embarrassment of a physical one. The symbolized figure of John Harvard, which the newspapers have invented to fill this vacancy, exists only on the sport page. He is no more than a paper-and-ink-cartoon...