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"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."
"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."

"I was reading a history and I found out General Grant got to be a general from obscurity as bad as mine."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1941
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 9 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (24.4 × 19.4 cm) Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (24.4 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1417
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"I gess the general is planning to use me for general housework in this war."
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"Funny gritting cards? Yez Mam, we got funny gritting cards. O, yez mam- all day lung am I in convulzions in mine own store!"
"Funny gritting cards? Yez Mam, we got funny gritting cards. O, yez mam- all day lung am I in convulzions in mine own store!"
Alan Dunn
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"I found myself running out of money, dear, so I've decided to take you into my confidence."
"I found myself running out of money, dear, so I've decided to take you into my confidence."
Alan Dunn
1941
"Unfortunately I found out too late that I had merely taken the place of his mother."
"Unfortunately I found out too late that I had merely taken the place of his mother."
Alan Dunn
1936
"Tell me frankly, General, do you think I ought to..."
"Tell me frankly, General, do you think I ought to..."
Alan Dunn
1948
"You know, I never thought I'd live to see the day when I'd have to add General de Gaulle to my list of worries."
"You know, I never thought I'd live to see the day when I'd have to add General de Gaulle to my list of worries."
Alan Dunn
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"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
"You take the wires out first, silly.", "I bet she don't lunch at the Colony in these!", "Got a quarter on you Mary Lou to save me going upstairs?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"I got it straight from my hairdresser who has a customer whose husband knows a man who works for the very company in Canada- "
"I got it straight from my hairdresser who has a customer whose husband knows a man who works for the very company in Canada- "
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"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..."
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1944
"Really! What I don't know about history would fill a library!"
"Really! What I don't know about history would fill a library!"
Alan Dunn
1967
To steer a course through history ... stay in the channel and keep out of the bayous, enchanting as they may be."
To steer a course through history ... stay in the channel and keep out of the bayous, enchanting as they may be."
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1957
"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'?"
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