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"This jam is frightful. It'll take us hallf an hour to go the remaining fifty feet.", "Oh dear, I've half a mind to walk."
"This jam is frightful. It'll take us hallf an hour to go the remaining fifty feet.", "Oh dear, I've half a mind to walk."

"This jam is frightful. It'll take us hallf an hour to go the remaining fifty feet.", "Oh dear, I've half a mind to walk."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1927
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (26.3 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (26.3 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1677
"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
"She says she can't make up her mind whether to go on after her M.A. or take up spot welding."
"She says she can't make up her mind whether to go on after her M.A. or take up spot welding."
Alan Dunn
1942
"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
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
Alan Dunn
1970
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
"All I have time for is a rejuvenation - Think I can make it in half and hour?"
Alan Dunn
1960
"In a matter of hours this will be the finest railroad in the world, if you don't mind waiting."
"In a matter of hours this will be the finest railroad in the world, if you don't mind waiting."
Alan Dunn
1969
"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
"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
"Lady, would you mind turning down that radio?", "Do you think city life makes us neurotic?"
"Lady, would you mind turning down that radio?", "Do you think city life makes us neurotic?"
Alan Dunn
1948
"Oh, after a time y'don't mind being in the limelight this way."
"Oh, after a time y'don't mind being in the limelight this way."
Alan Dunn
1930
"Oh, there's something else I've got to tell you."
"Oh, there's something else I've got to tell you."
Alan Dunn
1939