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"You know what you're getting into, don't you? A million men are idle right now in this country."
"You know what you're getting into, don't you? A million men are idle right now in this country."

"You know what you're getting into, don't you? A million men are idle right now in this country."

Artist (American, 1899 - 1976)
Date1930
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 14 3/8 × 14 13/16 in. (36.5 × 37.7 cm) Sheet: 15 3/16 × 15 1/4 in. (38.5 × 38.8 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.2287
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"You're going to have to make up your mind and you're going to have to make it up right now. Do you want a cellar or do you want a swimming pool?"
Alan Dunn
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"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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Mary Petty
1932
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
Mary Petty
1931
"Would you care to know, dear, that your 'hazy morn of an enchanted day in May' is composed of six-tenths parts per million sulfur dioxide, two parts per million carbon monoxide, four parts per million hydrocarbons, three parts...."
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"You know, Mater, I decided it would be nice if you went to Germany and took some baths."
Mary Petty
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"Please don't bite your nails, dear. You're all I have left."
Mary Petty
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"I don't say I don't like it, my dear, even if you do look kind of buttony."
Mary Petty
1933
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"We ought to do something-we can't leave everything to the Red Army, you know."
Mary Petty
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"He gave her one million, two million and still the misunderstanding grew."
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