Word: baba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verbal melting pot that put the second "C" in Connecticut (no one knows who did, or why), made Wyoming out of Mecheweami-ing, Oregon out of Ouiscon-sink (though some Irish patriots still insist that O'Reagan is the obvious source), Laughing Waters out of the onomatopoetic Minne-baba...
...Russian fairy tale, Vasilisa the All-Wise walks up to the little hut that stands on hen's legs and says : "Little hut, little hut, turn with your face to me and your back to the sea." And the voice of Baba Yaga, the witch, answers from within the hut: "Fee fo fum, I smell Russian blood. For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself on your breast and it slaps you in the face...
...this union of sales sense and pictorial passion was born Art Movement, Inc., whose Manhattan outlet is the Hall of Art. Physically the Hall of Art is a big street-floor and mezzanine store on Manhattan's West 40th Street. Artistically, it is an Ali Baba's cave whose open-sesame is the fact that its canvases, which are plainly visible through the window, have price tags that can be seen from the street. Prices range from...
...stabbed Baba Waring, leading lady of Folliana, when the lights went out? Most New York Daily News readers probably don't care. Those who do will never know, because Publisher Joe Patterson murdered Deathless Deer (TIME...
...them the strip would end Aug. 21. Deathless Deer's authors took it bravely. They are Joe Patterson's pretty, shrewd daughter Alicia and Artist Neysa McMein (magazine covers) They planned to wind up Princess Deer's present parlous situation (she is accused of stabbing Baba Waring), have her say to her lover in the final syndicate installment: "See you after the war." The ladies were whistling in the dark. Deathless Deer was perhaps the most ineptly drawn of all comic strips. The dialogue was stupid and corny. Newsmen settled down to betting on how long...