Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring four years, hard little Barney Ross, 32, was still all right in defense and attack, and his footwork was wonderful. He was a Marine private on Guadalcanal. In the jungle at about sundown, Private Ross looked up and beheld an advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
...begetter of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith died last week in Manhattan...
...turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired him in 1919. Result: Barney Google. Before he died last week at 52 after a year's illness. William Morgan De Beck had a 14-room Florida house, a Manhattan Riverside Drive apartment where, once, he threw dollar bills to kids from the window until he was stopped by police...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...
Because of De Beck's illness, an understudy has been drawing the strip for months. Just as Andy Gump survived Sidney Smith's death (in 1935), Snuffy and Barney will survive De Beck...