In this full page cartoon by E. Simms Campbell, our subject, quite a substantial figure himself, here faces a triple threat, a rival with no fewer than three names followed by three formidable honorifics: Doctor of Medicine, Victoria Cross, and Member of Parliament.
Egad!
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Egad!
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| "My wife! And the Right Honorable Percy Gilcannon Cleep, M.D., V.C., M.P.!" E. Simms Campbell Esquire, February 1937, page 179 |
Note: We are now in the home stretch of our survey of the work of E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971). Readers with access to original Campbell art or to rarely-seen published cartoons may submit high-resolution scans or photographs to the blog for inclusion in a future post.
Attempted Bloggery supports net neutrality.
Despite almost seven years of almost daily online subversion, I have been unable to get the word bloggery into any print dictionary. The word, which I was not the first to coin but was the first to overuse, is listed only in the online Urban Dictionary where it was defined in 2006 as a sort of blog blather. Even worse, to the OED it is a non-word. I therefore urge careful writers to use the noble new word bloggery whenever appropriate, particularly in print, and to forward any and all citations to those stodgy lexicographers at the OED.
Despite almost seven years of almost daily online subversion, I have been unable to get the word bloggery into any print dictionary. The word, which I was not the first to coin but was the first to overuse, is listed only in the online Urban Dictionary where it was defined in 2006 as a sort of blog blather. Even worse, to the OED it is a non-word. I therefore urge careful writers to use the noble new word bloggery whenever appropriate, particularly in print, and to forward any and all citations to those stodgy lexicographers at the OED.
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