"We used to have a Jap, but you can't tell what they're thinking."

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"We used to have a Jap, but you can't tell what they're thinking."

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)

Date1931

ClassificationsCartoon

Mediumcrayon

DimensionsObject: 9 1/8 × 13 1/4 in. (23.2 × 33.6 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/4 in. (23.2 × 33.6 cm)

Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest

Object number1979.1867

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"You just can't trust them. Now they're trying to be nicer than we are."

"You just can't trust them. Now they're trying to be nicer than we are."

Alan Dunn

1955

"Why do you have to go and spoil everything by thinking of it as the East Bronx!"

"Why do you have to go and spoil everything by thinking of it as the East Bronx!"

Alan Dunn

1960

"Oh, what do you care what a lot of bourgeois trades people in a building like this think! Tell 'em I'm your sponsor - anything."

"Oh, what do you care what a lot of bourgeois trades people in a building like this think! Tell 'em I'm your sponsor - anything."

Alan Dunn

1948

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just the tip of the ice-berg. Can't we just have the news?"

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just the tip of the ice-berg. Can't we just have the news?"

Alan Dunn

1974

"Now you mustn't be offended by what I am about to tell you in my professional capacity."

"Now you mustn't be offended by what I am about to tell you in my professional capacity."

Alan Dunn

1933

"I think I'll skip breakfast and lunch, [Marie,] and just have a Martini - And, by the way, say 'Veuillez, madame?' and not 'Vaulez?' - I don't want people to think I can't afford to have you use the subjuntive - "

"I think I'll skip breakfast and lunch, [Marie,] and just have a Martini - And, by the way, say 'Veuillez, madame?' and not 'Vaulez?' - I don't want people to think I can't afford to have you use the subjuntive - "

Alan Dunn

1948

"Didn't mother tell you to dance with Miss Jones?", "What, that adolescent?"

"Didn't mother tell you to dance with Miss Jones?", "What, that adolescent?"

Alan Dunn

1926

"There, there, sweetheart, tell Mother what there is about tapioca you don't understand."

"There, there, sweetheart, tell Mother what there is about tapioca you don't understand."

Alan Dunn

1939

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

Alan Dunn

1950

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

"You'll laugh when I tell you what I paid for this."

Alan Dunn

1950

"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

"I am now soar because I can't get right in there and battle them Rising Sons of you know what."

"I am now soar because I can't get right in there and battle them Rising Sons of you know what."

Alan Dunn

1942

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