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Word: smilin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: In a Locked Room | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...Smilin' Jack was last seen heading out to battle in the Pacific, leaving the stage to minor characters; he will be in civilian clothes when readers see him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cease Fire | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthronement | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...have left Kevin "The Bull" O'Donnell unpublished for several weeks. We caught him admiring the new character in Smilin' Jack. Walking through the Statler lobby, "Bullit Bobby" Malone and Ted Lutz met two old friends--Sure, we know, boys...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/24/1945 | See Source »

...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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