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...countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what I yam...
...applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger...
...Ryan 3L. Boston; Allen A. Schaefer 3L, Valley Center, Kansas: Herace L. Chapman, II, 3L. Columbus, Ohio: John T. Rayes 3L. Boston: Summer Marens 3L. Breakline; Roger P. Marruis 3L, Washington. D. C.: Joseph A. I. Worshsm 3L. Dallas, Texas: William Stix 3L. St. Lonis. Missouri; Francis L. Yam Unsen 2L., Philadelphia; William Dall, Sheldon 2L, Washington, D. C.: Laurence R. Good year 2L, Buffalo, New York; Fred Wolf Jr., 2L, Venirla, New Jersey; and Dwight K. Paysons 2L, Keni, Ghto...
...some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...
Vanities of 1923. Earl Carroll has unveiled a first-rate second-class vaudeville show. With a single exception his notables are picked from the infinite rows of orchids, yams, and parsnips which burgeon beneath the glass frames of Mr. B. F. Keith. Inadvertently Mr. Carroll picked mostly yams and parsnips. Careful buttering of the latter with scenery and sirens rendered them barely palatable. Yet yams are yams. And yam actors should not be liberated on a stage facing 1,000 people who have paid $11.00 for the exercises...