Word: scrawniest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...
Editors asked for more. Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...