Word: wampus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mmmm" to Wampus...
TIME'S statement under Education in the March 27 issue, "The eighth consideration, new to non-Nebraskans was 'M-mm,' " occasioned considerably more amazement in the Wampus editorial office than either the earthquake or Professor Dickinson's mathematical capers of 1932. "Mmm" and the contest TIME had reference to were the none too healthy brain-childs of one Charles E. Van Landingham, Wampus editorial staff member and campus news sleuth at the University of Southern California...
...Southern California Wampus takes pleasure in joining hands with TIME in an inspired triumphant march toward concise, accurate detail in magazine editing, by submitting for your consideration the enclosed January and February Wampus tear sheets...
...procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters...