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...your Oct. 26 issue you published an article on "Lost Laughter" dealing with cartoons, and pointed out that Cartoonist Batchelor had been the outstanding cartoonist from the angle of novelty, largely because of the character he had created-a politician with a silk hat but wearing little else...
Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...
...Orleans to visit his uncle Michel and his two younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples and clerks tot up books. When the picture was painted, Louisiana had a Negro Acting Governor, P. B. Pinchback. The director...
...that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure on the bit so gentle that Vast, Si Murray or Olympic can perform with silk threads instead of reins. The secret of dressage lies as much in the delicacy of the rider's hands as of the horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost...
...they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley...