Word: mingo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is a fellow who plays the hero's faithful Indian companion in NBC's Daniel Boone TV series. On screen, he is an Oxford-educated part- Cherokee half-breed who goes by the name of Mingo. That's about all anybody needs to know about the Daniel Boone show. But Mingo-well, he's something special, even if the show is not. His showbiz handle is Ed Ames, he is the former baritone lead with the Ames
...Bannerman, famed for her 1899 classic Little Black Sambo. The manuscript had been in her lawyer's safe for 20 years. But why is Squibba white? The author never lets on. After Sambo's fabulous success, there had followed a whole Bannerman series of Little Black books: Mingo, Bobtail, Quasha and Quibba. Whatever her color, Squibba loves the same things her little black predecessors did, and ends her adventures with a pile of pancakes just like the ones Black Mumbo whipped up for Sambo 67 years...
After Due Libation. In Williamson, W. Va., after returning a guilty verdict in a first-degree murder trial, eight members of the jury of Mingo County Circuit Court were found guilty of contempt and fined $25 each for drinking beer and whisky while deliberating in a hotel room...
James Street, who is best known for his rawboned bestsellers about the antebellum South (Mingo Dabney, Tap Roots), is modest enough not to confuse his merchandise with literature. "Those of us who write for profit," he once said, "must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes." The book business being what it is, Novelist Street is pretty sure to get another bowlful of punch for The Velvet Doublet...
...Overtime. In St. Louis, Walter Mingo, admitting 40 apartment burglaries told police he attributed his success to keeping strict union hours-9 to 4, five days a week...