Herblock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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For years, the legendary Washington Post political cartoonist Herbert Block, aka Herblock, drew Richard Nixon with a menacing five o’clock shadow.
From Los Angeles Times
After Nixon was elected president in 1968, Herblock drew a freshly shorn Nixon, on the theory that every new president deserves “a clean shave.”
From Los Angeles Times
At The Washington Post, the great Herblock afflicted miscreants in the White House and Congress for more than 50 years.
From Seattle Times
“I don’t mean to blow my own horn,” he told The Washington Post in 1982, “but between Johnny Carson’s monologues, the political cartoonists such as Herblock and Oliphant, and me, if we all decide what the hot subject in the country is, that’s what it is.”
From New York Times
If you ran into Herblock in the corridor, he would invariably ask your opinion of his latest political cartoon.
From Washington Post
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