Word: oops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patiently and learnedly De Camp disproves the Atlantis theories, except for the possible grain of truth behind Plato's original allegory. But the Atlanteans go marching on. Last week a comic-strip character, Alley Oop, who was born in Moo (Mu with dinosaurs), was exploring Atlantis by time machine...
Said "Shorty" Joy, whose age is 20 and whose height is 5 ft. 4: "I walked up to him toughlike, and I said, 'Mop oop!' I don't know German and I figured that might sound like 'Get up!' . . . The Jerry put down his gun and gave up. Then I looked across a field and there were six Jerries looking at us from a trench. ... I walked over shouting 'Oop mop!' and by golly, out they came...
Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...
...crippled Washington newspapers last week gave editors a chance to learn what news and features readers are most interested in. Example: readers of the News, which missed one day's publication, wanted to know: How is Churchill? What's going on in the war? What did Alley Oop (a comic strip character) do today? What's the answer to Saturday's crossword puzzle? Who won the first race at Tropical? One reader - a woman - wanted all the News's editorials read to her over the phone...
Trucutu: Alley Oop...