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...Heinz Kosher Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated and he went crashing to the floor...
...soybean is a pea-sized seed, usually yellow in color but gold in the eyes of the farmer. It wouldn't make much of a pet, but it has about all the other qualities of Al Capp's famous Shmoo. It is crushed into edible oils for cooking and salads and into livestock feed. It goes into antiknock gasoline, linoleum, chocolate candy bars, and helps make fire extinguishers foam...
...summer home of "Comic Strip Artist Hal Rapp," he proves a coarse cad. "Hey! Who's this old biddy?" he demands. "I was expecting somebody younger! Get the idea?" Soon he is hurling a glass of booze (poured into a tumbler decorated with a Capp-created Shmoo) at one of the peons who turns out his strip Big Abe on the assembly line...
When Cartoonist Al Capp invented the Shmoo, an animal which enabled man to live without working, everybody thought it was merely a Cappital joke. But in New Mexico's rich Mesilla Valley last week, Farmer Deane Stahmann was running a Shmoo-like business which promised to revolutionize the agriculture of the valley. Farmer Stahmann was just the man to do it. He had inherited some land, and by leveling and irrigating more, transformed desert-like land into a 4,000-acre cotton farm. It helped make the Mesilla Valley one of the important U.S. cotton-producing areas. By pioneering...
Despite its anti-social attitude, however, the musk ox has at least one wildly enthusiastic human admirer. John J. Teal, a husky, Arctic-roving anthropologist, finds it almost as gifted a beast as the shmoo; last week in Manhattan, he announced that he considered musk oxen the hope of New England, and said that he looked forward to the day when hairy herds of them would crop contentedly on the stony hillsides of New Hampshire and Vermont...