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"Oh, I don't know. If we didn't have crime we wouldn't have Edgar Wallace and all that."
"Oh, I don't know. If we didn't have crime we wouldn't have Edgar Wallace and all that."

"Oh, I don't know. If we didn't have crime we wouldn't have Edgar Wallace and all that."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1931
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 8 9/16 × 13 1/2 in. (21.8 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 8 9/16 × 13 1/2 in. (21.8 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1835
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
"I wish our friends wouldn't strain so to give us something we didn't already have."
Alan Dunn
1971
"I'm all right if I don't look down." "They wouldn't be any better if we went clockwise." "Where's the elevator? I'm all turned round. " "Hi, Alice." "Stop thinking of it as a third of a mile! " "Let's come again and really look at the pictures." "This is going to be had to tear down."
"I'm all right if I don't look down." "They wouldn't be any better if we went clockwise." "Where's the elevator? I'm all turned round. " "Hi, Alice." "Stop thinking of it as a third of a mile! " "Let's come again and really look at the pictures." "This is going to be had to tear down."
Alan Dunn
1959
"Wouldn't it be better just to have a couple of small signs telling what we do have?"
"Wouldn't it be better just to have a couple of small signs telling what we do have?"
Alan Dunn
1945
"Sometimes I wish we didn't have so damn many stockholders."
"Sometimes I wish we didn't have so damn many stockholders."
Alan Dunn
1956
"Oh, dear, we're just on our way out. I'm terribly sorry. I don't know any eight people we'd rather have seen."
"Oh, dear, we're just on our way out. I'm terribly sorry. I don't know any eight people we'd rather have seen."
Alan Dunn
1946
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Well, obviously he didn't understand life or he wouldn't have committed suicide!"
"Well, obviously he didn't understand life or he wouldn't have committed suicide!"
Alan Dunn
1931
"I'm sure that people we know wouldn't want to belong to the Great Society."
"I'm sure that people we know wouldn't want to belong to the Great Society."
Alan Dunn
1964
"May I suggest that we strike from the prospectus the sentence reading 'such brilliant management as we have enjoyed is unobtainable without the inducement of continued stock options'?"
"May I suggest that we strike from the prospectus the sentence reading 'such brilliant management as we have enjoyed is unobtainable without the inducement of continued stock options'?"
Alan Dunn
1969
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"I don't know whether it means anything especially, but that makes the second time this year that my views have been solicited by Dr. Gallup."
"I don't know whether it means anything especially, but that makes the second time this year that my views have been solicited by Dr. Gallup."
Alan Dunn
1941
"He didn't have any stamina. All of a sudden he went back to Toledo."
"He didn't have any stamina. All of a sudden he went back to Toledo."
Alan Dunn
1931