James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.
He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
The grand jury investigation has the possibility of really shining a light on the credibility of the administration, how officials tried to undermine those who were criticizing them and how they then covered up that attempt.
As the Justice Department gets closer and closer to him through his aides, and if he is in more trouble, certainly the Democrats will use that.
what they are running from, and to, and why.
Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness
Politically, war trumps the economy. But the president has very few things that he can brag about right now. He has to point out that the economy is doing very well. It would be foolish not to.
Politically, this is very serious for the president. If the base of his party has lost faith, that could spell trouble for his policy agenda and for the party generally.
One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.