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"We had to remove some of the accessories, Chief. The springs couldn't take it."
Image Not Available for "We had to remove some of the accessories, Chief. The springs couldn't take it."

"We had to remove some of the accessories, Chief. The springs couldn't take it."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1948
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 8 3/4 × 12 in. (22.2 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 in. (22.2 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1099
Some Garden Accessories
Some Garden Accessories
John DePol
1979 [1983]
"But if we couldn't save Wanamaker's and we couldn't save 277 Park, how can we possibly save Penn Station?"
"But if we couldn't save Wanamaker's and we couldn't save 277 Park, how can we possibly save Penn Station?"
Alan Dunn
1962
"There must be some Supreme Intelligence - you and me couldn't just 'happen'.", " And sometimes it is my mood to crush something frail and lovely.", "20 to 1 and no lemon peel.", "-she came from a good family and never went back."
"There must be some Supreme Intelligence - you and me couldn't just 'happen'.", " And sometimes it is my mood to crush something frail and lovely.", "20 to 1 and no lemon peel.", "-she came from a good family and never went back."
Alan Dunn
1960
"Here's the latest dope. I just had a call from R.B. We're to rewrite the script, placing the action in Siam. It seems we have some blocked ticals there."
"Here's the latest dope. I just had a call from R.B. We're to rewrite the script, placing the action in Siam. It seems we have some blocked ticals there."
Alan Dunn
1950
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[Paan dan for betel and betel accessories]
20th century
"We're not to wait. He's just had a meat-and-potatoes conference with some nuts-and-bolts people, and he's in no mood for dinner."
"We're not to wait. He's just had a meat-and-potatoes conference with some nuts-and-bolts people, and he's in no mood for dinner."
Alan Dunn
1969
"But I had to buy something, so I could get some change for the exact-fare bus."
"But I had to buy something, so I could get some change for the exact-fare bus."
Alan Dunn
1969
"But you said you had some on the train to unwind. Just how many times do you have to unwind?"
"But you said you had some on the train to unwind. Just how many times do you have to unwind?"
Alan Dunn
1958
"He's a pretty f[s]ly customer, chief - no obvious tieups with any of the Communist front organizations - but we finally hung it on him. From November, 1944, until April, 1946, he was in the State Department."
"He's a pretty f[s]ly customer, chief - no obvious tieups with any of the Communist front organizations - but we finally hung it on him. From November, 1944, until April, 1946, he was in the State Department."
Alan Dunn
1950
"Here's the record Chief. He's a member of the Sons of Democracy, the American Friends of Worldwide Democracy, the Guardians of the American Heritage, the People's League for Good Citizenship, the Friends of Freedom, the Conference for the Furtherance of Costitutional Government, the League for the Preservation of American Freedom, the Sentinels of Democracy, the Golden Rule Association, the Society for the Support of the Constitution of the United States, the International Congress for the Furtherance of Democracy, the Conference for the Observance of the Ten Commandments and the Society for the Preservation of North American Wild Life. We think he's a Commie."
"Here's the record Chief. He's a member of the Sons of Democracy, the American Friends of Worldwide Democracy, the Guardians of the American Heritage, the People's League for Good Citizenship, the Friends of Freedom, the Conference for the Furtherance of Costitutional Government, the League for the Preservation of American Freedom, the Sentinels of Democracy, the Golden Rule Association, the Society for the Support of the Constitution of the United States, the International Congress for the Furtherance of Democracy, the Conference for the Observance of the Ten Commandments and the Society for the Preservation of North American Wild Life. We think he's a Commie."
Alan Dunn
1947
“Somebody had figured out that it would take 245,678,987,456 potatoes to lick the Axis.”
“Somebody had figured out that it would take 245,678,987,456 potatoes to lick the Axis.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
"Now, when we take three hundred millilitres of a compound containing hydrogen and oxygen in a ratio of two to one and add three millilitres of an eight-hundredths percent stannous-fluoride solution, and fifty millilitres of treated industrial wastes and solids, we get drinking water."
Alan Dunn
c 1965