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"Just a minute - that isn't much fun for Mrs. Mayhew. Mr. Mayhew, will you sit over here, please?"
"Just a minute - that isn't much fun for Mrs. Mayhew. Mr. Mayhew, will you sit over here, please?"

"Just a minute - that isn't much fun for Mrs. Mayhew. Mr. Mayhew, will you sit over here, please?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1930
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink wash
DimensionsObject: 9 × 14 3/16 in. (22.9 × 36 cm) Sheet: 9 × 14 3/16 in. (22.9 × 36 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1807
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"All right, darling, you may fire one fusillade at Mr. and Mrs. Smalley and then you must go to bed."
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"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
Alan Dunn
1948
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"A Mrs. Clavicle, sounds like, wants to talk with you on the office phone. Shall I give her your private number or do you want to come down and talk with here on the office phone?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"I'd like you to meet Miss Tucker, who's over here on a Guggenheim, Miss Coley, who's here on a Fullbright, and Mr. Stewart, who's on his own."
"I'd like you to meet Miss Tucker, who's over here on a Guggenheim, Miss Coley, who's here on a Fullbright, and Mr. Stewart, who's on his own."
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Alan Dunn
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"Hawley, my lad, ask this good man if that is the correct time. Mrs. Perly's wrist watch registers a discrpancy of two minutes."
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"Irma, I want you to meet Mrs. Rush. Mrs. Rush has a very successful compost pit."
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"Mr. and Mrs. Laird; the Cabots; Mrs. Percy Hartshorn, whom you may know; Mr. Drummond; Miss Delaney, and old lady Gibson."
"Mr. and Mrs. Laird; the Cabots; Mrs. Percy Hartshorn, whom you may know; Mr. Drummond; Miss Delaney, and old lady Gibson."
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"Come, come, Prince, Mrs. Pittinger isn't going to bite you."
Mary Petty
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Mrs. Purdy's old playsuit just came down, Praise the Lord!"
Mrs. Purdy's old playsuit just came down, Praise the Lord!"
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"Well, here's another joint checking account that didn't pan out, the P.K. Twombly Manufacturing Corporation and Mrs. Twombly."
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