Word: hobbsian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles. In that month Whitman Hobbs in an obscure article buried deep in the Lampoon, gave his impressions of the cinema "worsts" of the year. For a month nothing happened. Then the shrewd press agent of one of the forty or so actors and actresses given the Hobbsian Academy award saw the potentiality of the article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that was not staged and pre-arranged. This lone incident in which Harvard was not made to look silly reached...
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