Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kings Row has most of the old characters, the same Midwestern scene, but takes place in 1951 instead of the 1890s. The show seemed good enough to bring Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. back to daytime radio after a nine-year absence. What listeners heard had a familiar sob-and-sacrifice ring: noble young Dr. Parris Mitchell outwitted villainous Fulmer Green, gently disengaged himself from beauteous Randy McHugh ("Please . . . you're making it hard for both of us"), was sweetly patient with his incurably ill wife Elise, and, to the accompaniment of vibrant organ "strains," calmed a gun-toting...
...first episode plunged right into the teary wedding morning of Chris and Connie Thayer (Jimmy Lydon and Olive Stacey) and The First Hundred Years intends to sob-and-smile its way through in-law troubles, childbirth, alienated affections and innumerable reconciliations. Recalling the long runs of some of radio's continued dramas (One Man's Family, Life Can Be Beautiful), Adman Walter Craig has foresightedly signed his leading characters to seven-year contracts. But it's hard to stop a soap opera, once it really gets going. Says Craig: "Suppose one of the mothers-in-law should...
...natcherly) strawnger So Churchill hokay in a seer ius way But a (sob) laff is more needed by pipple...
Catchwords and phrases from Li'l Abner such as "amoozin but confoozin," "as any fool can plainly see," "natcherly" and both "sob" and "gulp" used as spoken expletives, have become immovably anchored in American idiom. His Shmoos and Kigmies are as easily identifiable to most Americans as cantaloupes and cows...
...most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most of his staff, which has long been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister soft. Although he spends six months of the year in his Miami home or in the Caribbean aboard his 71 -ft. cruiser, the High Tide, he is never out of touch with the paper, uses his ship-to-shore phone when necessary...