Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shmoo is a friendly, fruitful, gourd-shaped animal that wandered into Al Capp's Li'l Abner last summer (TIME, Sept. 13). Its Life & Times was simply a reprint of funny-paper strips, plus a weekend's work by Capp on extra drawings to make Dogpatch only reasonably unintelligible to readers venturing there for the first time. Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work...
During this presidential campaign, lots of people have said lots of stupid things. But it took a Harvard professor to utter what is certainly the greatest campaign monstrosity that has reached my cars. His name is Warren Abner Seavey, he is the Bussey Professor of Law, and he was speaking for Dewey at the Law School Forum Friday evening. "Perhaps," he suggested, "the man who drove the gangsters from New York may be able to drive the gangsters from the Kremlin...
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...
Screamed Li'l Abner: "Joe!! Yo' has failed me!! Ah was shore somethin' would happen-somethin' awful!!" Croaked Btfsplk: "It (sob!) DID!!" Had the unthinkable really happened? Sadistic Cartoonist Al Capp left his readers to bite their nails over that for another week...
Participating in "The Faculty Votes" forum are Professor Edmund M. Morgan, chairman, Professor W. Barton Leach, professor Warren Abner Seavey, and Professor Richard H. Field. Other speakers have not as yet been named...