Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes. Strutting in its center was a child in a bright yellow nightgown, whose slightly oriental face was sharp with precocious malice. The nasty creature was named The Yellow Kid, and his guttersnipe antics were soon on every New Yorker's tongue. It was the first successful comic strip...
...call the blazing DC-6. No answer. Five minutes later, he picked up another message from Captain McMillen: "United 608. Our tail is gone. We may get down and we may not." A minute later, a third message: "United 608. We may make it. We may make it. Approaching strip...
...York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L. McMillen, had discovered the fire, he had reversed his course, headed back over southwestern Utah's jagged Bryce Canyon country, to an emergency strip 20 miles away...
...glow that the audience carries away from this amusing, if non-aisle-rolling comedy. can be laid directly at the feet of Miss June Lockhart. She creates a young lady that every male member of the audience would like to meet even if she did not do a genicel strip-tease under the precarious shield of a large beach robe. Miss Lockhart is a compoient actress, but there is a persistent impression that her success resis largely on the suspicion that she herself in just the kind of young lady she portrays...
...Digesto the Glass Eater swallow a lighted tube of neon. . . ." Selden the Stratosphere Man climbed up to his perch on a swaying, 225-ft. pole. Air jets started blowing up the dresses of screaming women. The White Horse band beat out a brassy whoop-te-do. Cold-eyed strip-teasers dished out their ancient promises as they asked the boys for an additional four bits to see "the real show...