"Fifty lire! You call that helping American prestige?"

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"Fifty lire! You call that helping American prestige?"

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)

Date1961

ClassificationsCartoon

Mediumcrayon ink

DimensionsObject: 12 5/8 × 11 9/16 in. (32 × 29.3 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 × 11 9/16 in. (32 × 29.3 cm)

Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest

Object number1979.1452

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"...and then at the last minute you bring two hundred and fifty extra people in for dinner."

"...and then at the last minute you bring two hundred and fifty extra people in for dinner."

Alan Dunn

1944

"I suppose you could call me an intellectual. I always keep asking myself why."

"I suppose you could call me an intellectual. I always keep asking myself why."

Alan Dunn

1967

"That's fifty cents apiece on each casserole as a deposit, ma'm."

"That's fifty cents apiece on each casserole as a deposit, ma'm."

Alan Dunn

1948

"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."

"Poison - that's the considerate way - It's gas I don't like - refrigerator switch sets it off and it blows - injures maybe fifty people - And jumping, that's messy - No, give me poison cases any day."

Alan Dunn

1948

"If they overhaul the world's monetary system, what happens to my eighty-two dollars and fifty seven cents?"

"If they overhaul the world's monetary system, what happens to my eighty-two dollars and fifty seven cents?"

Alan Dunn

1972

"I can lick any man over fifty-five in the house!"

"I can lick any man over fifty-five in the house!"

Alan Dunn

1973

"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

"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."

"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."

Alan Dunn

1971

"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."

"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."

Alan Dunn

1942

"I suppose in some neighborhoods you get nothing but the Journal American."

"I suppose in some neighborhoods you get nothing but the Journal American."

Alan Dunn

1944

No Caption (Road sign: You are entering the American Sector of Berlin)

No Caption (Road sign: You are entering the American Sector of Berlin)

Alan Dunn

1949

"I wouldn't call it a slowdown, Boss. It just so happens that none of us feel up to scratch."

"I wouldn't call it a slowdown, Boss. It just so happens that none of us feel up to scratch."

Alan Dunn

1968

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