Word: hepzibah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hair styling, history tells us, first came to the New World in the form of a severe off-the-waist pigtail sweeping primly off the pure brow of one Hepzibah Smith, colonist. Spreading swiftly over the continent, it soon replaced the more primitive native styles; pigtails were seen everywhere in the land and few there were who dared to flaunt the dictates of the prevailing fashion...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...There was so much music in America I was revolted," said Pianist Hepzibah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, on her way back home to Australia after visiting California. "Music is an intruder on every form of life. It's even in grocery stores and beauticians'. And the most repulsive thing about it is that no one is listening...