Word: bhaer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others: "Professor" Friedrich Bhaer, who married one of Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...
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