Word: kickapoos
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...amoozin' but confoozin' antics were eventually syndicated in 900 newspapers with an estimated readership of 90 million. Li'l Abner inspired a Broadway musical, two movies and a television show, earned Capp $500,000 a year at its peak and introduced Sadie Hawkins Day, the Schmoo, Kickapoo Joy Juice and Lower Slobbovia into the American lexicon...
...perpetual cloud rained down bad luck on almost everyone, and the unluckiest ended up in the hands of Freddie the undertaker. The shmoos rolled over dead and oven ready for hungry hoomins. Hulking Hairless Joe and his faithful Indian sidekick, Lonesome Polecat, dispensed hair-curling batches of Kickapoo Joy Juice. Dogpatchers went calling on the snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman. Moonbeam McSwine wallowed happily in the mud and tried unsuccessfully to ensnare Abner with her buxom charms. As Capp once said of his curvaceous creations: "Anyone who likes small bosoms...
...thousand Girl Scouts of Kickapoo Council salute you," said the telegram, "pledging their continued services in the efforts of their city beautiful." The American Institute of Park Executives broke down and gave her the first honorary membership ever to go to a woman, and only the fourth in its 67-year history. Bannered the conservative Chicago Tribune: HER NAME is CLAUDIA, AND BEAUTY...
...Broadway views the pits and perils of Manhattan as if through the prejudices of a spinster librarian in Humboldt, Kans. Last week's story was all about a bright-eyed girl from the Midwest (Tuesday Weld) who arrived in New York and within a week was eating kickapoo pills given her by a thug in El Morocco. Ironically enough, the series was created by the man who wrote Born Yesterday, Broadway Playwright-Director Garson Kanin. His hero, played by Craig Stevens, is a press-agent who calls Kilgallen before he calls the police. The show is nervously edited...
Today Americans are denied the whoop-dedoo promotion of Barry's Tricopherous, or Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, or Wine of Cardui, or Madame Dean's French Female Pills, or Dr. Dye's Voltaic Belt, or even Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. But the television viewer, morosely staring at an armpit, or watching little hammers beat a brain, or listening to the simulated gurgling of a stomach, knows that the spirit of the medicine man is still around...