Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
...York City police picked up the youngest dope addict they had ever found, an eight-year-old Bronx boy, who confessed to smoking marijuana cigarettes. His story led police to a dozen other child addicts (heroin as well as marijuana). In the lower Bronx, the dope users are classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about...
...cheering, as at Hanover, is commendable, but this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game. The referee had to warn the locals that unless the Bronx cheers stopped Columbia would win by forfeit. It's a good thing the Dartmouth boys only show up for football games...
...TIME, reporting the news of an unusual trial, tried to make it plain that Actress Bankhead was able to rise above the dull limitations of the law, and dominate the scene with a characteristically dramatic performance. Miss Bankhead apparently mistook TIME'S awed applause for a Bronx cheer...
...second prizewinner, Rhys Caparn, 41, models nothing but animals. Her Animal Form, an inquisitive mammal with only a suggestion of a head and a pelt flecked with green and gilt, was derived from wild cattle she saw at the Bronx Zoo. The remaining prizes went to Chicagoan Abbott Pattison for his robot-like Striding Man and to Pennsylvanian Joseph Greenberg for a sturdy but graceful...