Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonists showed more humor than their editorial colleagues. Most of them jeered at the Russo-German rapprochement, refused to get excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks...
...GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR YOUR "STUDY-PROVOKING" SKETCH "CONGRESSIONAL REVOLT OF '39" [TIME, July 31]. FROM YOUR OUTLINE AND FROM MANY A STUDENT PALETTE WILL SPRING COLORFUL WORD PICTURES OF A NEW PARTY-"THE REPUBLOCRATS...
Permit me to observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
...second half From Vienna did much better. There was fun in a sketch of a refugee learning English in Six Easy Lessons; fun and charm alike in Little Ballerina, where dainty Ilia Roden plays a daydreaming ballet pupil who quits her routine to imitate Mary Wigman, Pavlova, an Aquacade swimmer. And the finale was a potpourri of those gay, nostalgic Viennese tunes to which all the world has waltzed and to which it is impossible to goose-step...
Said the Daily Sketch: "The whole scene was terrific in every way. That goes for the enthusiasm, too." Sample headlines...