Freemasonry in New Yorker cartoons, fig. 4

Limericks Long After Lear

There’s a vaporish maiden in Harrison
Who longed for the love of a Saracen,
But she had to confine her
Intent to a Shriner,
Who suffers, I fear, by comparison.
Richard Taylor c. 1939

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There have been 68,647 cartoons published in The New Yorker magazine between it’s first issue on February 21, 1925 and February 23, 2004. Only two have referred to Freemasonry while another five have referred to the masonic club, the Shriners. These, and other cartoons can be found in The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, edited by Robert Mankoff. New York : Black Dog and Levanthal Publishers, Inc., 2004. ISBN : 1-57912-322-8 ; The New Yorker Twenty-fifth Anniversary Album 1925-1950. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1950, "...the late thirties...", unnumbered p. 50.

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