Word: jemima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
...same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...
...moved down the road to Fort Madison, a town with 300 blacks. There he quickly became president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The folks in West Point still remember the day when Daddy Dulin ruined their annual pre-rodeo breakfast in protest against the appearance of "Aunt Jemima" as a so-called celebrity. After picking up a master's degree in school administration from Indiana State University, Dulin moved on to Detroit...
...moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs as her masterpiece-The Tailor of Gloucester...
MAME was hilarious in a book, ebullient in a play, a delight on the screen, and in this musical she can sing and dance too. Angela Lansbury plays the most famous aunt since Jemima, with a winning mixture of the maternal...