Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like this were being sung to teenagers all over the U.S. last week. In cinema houses throughout the land, Bing Crosby addressed some 40,000,000 Americans (via a movie short), urging that high-school youngsters go back to school this month. Frank Sinatra wrote a syndicated newspaper appeal. Superman, the Lone Ranger, the Quiz Kids, the Air Forces' General H. H. Arnold, the Marines' Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift chimed in. The U.S. Government was conducting the biggest back-to-school drive in history...
...whipping a whole German armored-car column practically singlehanded gives us pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they shot up the screen...
Frogs jumped all over Manhattan last week. Out of nearly 700 contestants, 34 made the finals of the first city championships since 1935. Winners: Baby, an entry of the Boys Club, 5 ft. flat; Superman of the Y.M.C.A., 4 ft. 6 in.; an unchristened Police Athletic League leaper...
...from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...
...Colonel's build-up has been terrific. You get the impression out this way that he is a superman, barking orders to the Middle West from the top of Tribune Tower. . . . The reality is simpler. . . . The Colonel doesn't like what is happening in the world. Instead of looking forward to a new solution, he wants to go back to a time when, as he sees it, everything was clear and simple and good...