Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ugliest city: Knoxville, "intense, concentrated, degrading ugliness," mixed with a backwoods piety that allows no hard liquor, no Sunday baseball, no Sunday movies...
...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...
Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...
...Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...
...weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li'l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers' imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big "DELETED" showed where her face should have been...