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"I do wish they'd go through their pockets."
"I do wish they'd go through their pockets."

"I do wish they'd go through their pockets."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1943
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (22.2 × 24.7 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (22.2 × 24.7 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0879
"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
Right Profile of a Man with Hands in Pockets
Right Profile of a Man with Hands in Pockets
Fred Ellis
n.d.
"You'd think that with all we're spending on the Marshall Plan they’d give you a decent choice of entrees."
"You'd think that with all we're spending on the Marshall Plan they’d give you a decent choice of entrees."
Alan Dunn
1948
"I hope you won't mind my stopping here. I love to see the five - fifteen New York - Chicago bus go thundering through."
"I hope you won't mind my stopping here. I love to see the five - fifteen New York - Chicago bus go thundering through."
Alan Dunn
1935
Image Not Available for “I wish they wood train me for Pago Pago as I like it from what I seen in the movies.”
“I wish they wood train me for Pago Pago as I like it from what I seen in the movies.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"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
"Another billion rubles! I wish we hadn't started this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses."
"Another billion rubles! I wish we hadn't started this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses."
Alan Dunn
1955
"This is Glub, sitting in for Tom Dunn on the 'Eleven O'Clock News', and I wish to announce that there has been a rather suddne and sweeping change in your government.
"This is Glub, sitting in for Tom Dunn on the 'Eleven O'Clock News', and I wish to announce that there has been a rather suddne and sweeping change in your government.
Alan Dunn
1968
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
"Men, we're all a part of the greatest amphibious operation in history, and, believe me, this is a scene we here topside will never forget. I wish you fellows could see it - the sky dark with planes, our planes, and the water dotted to the horizon with craft of every description..."
Alan Dunn
1944
"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
"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
"Better make up your mind soon, son - Do you want to go to the college with the biggest cyclotron or the college with the best football team!"
"Better make up your mind soon, son - Do you want to go to the college with the biggest cyclotron or the college with the best football team!"
Alan Dunn
1960