Word: muffins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of British children crowded around TV sets at week's end to hear Muffin the Mule make his New Year resolution. As curly-haired Mistress-of-Ceremonies Annette Mills appeared at her piano and ran through the opening bars of We Want Muffin, watching children squirmed with anticipation. Then Muffin, a black & white puppet with a straggly mane and a shabby velvet saddle, came clattering across the piano. As always, he blundered about, got his foot tangled in Annette's teacup, finally collapsed in a dither of excitement. As always, the TV audience shrieked with pleasure. Then...
Lamb & Pup. For two years, Muffin the Mule has been enchanting Britain's old & young. He is supported by a large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
Norman Collins, BBC's television chief, thinks Muffin appeals to everyone, including grownups, because his "grandiose ideas always go wrong, and, in that sense, he is the epitome of a whole field of human experience." The London Observer's radio critic has written learnedly of Muffin's "fresh, inventive, convivial" antics. Anthony Smith, one of Muffin's fans, puts the matter more simply: "I am four years old," he wrote. "I love Muffin...
Captain George Hauptfuhrer watched the proceedings in muffin, but even his presence wouldn't have helped the Harvard cause materially. The Varsity gave a fair account of itself in a sloppy first half, leaving the floor on the short end of a 36 to 30 count...
...Edward Strysko, at Suffern, N.Y., contributed 200 muffin-sized ingots of pure aluminum. He said that his hobby was moulding aluminum into muffin-sized ingots...