Word: yum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feminine leads, now evidently one of the company's strong points, are Margaret Mitchell as Phyllis, Denise Findlay as Iolanthe, and Elia Halman as the Fairy Queen. Miss Mitchell, seen before as Yum-Yum, has a delightfully crystal voice and an acting manner no less charming. Her eighteenth century makeup is excellent, and her innocent, pseudo-proper, very British diction in the spoken dialogue a special attraction of the evening. Miss Findlay is bewitching and demure as the 17-year old mother of the lad of 25, and Miss Halman perfect as the frightening but not really fierce Fairy Queen...
Next day, the cast gave a consolation full-dress performance for itself behind locked doors. Stagehands, performers and hangers-on wept when it was over. The chorus sung by Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing seemed peculiarly appropriate...
...words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with the others as inadequate. His own explanation is "a humdrum affair": man discovered words by sheer accident...
...case for the commercial on the overseas broadcast. The big-network show commercial is as familiar to the U.S. soldier as a birdcall to a country-boy, a subway rattle to a New Yorker. It does not spell mother, but it may spell home. Nevertheless, unless the yum-yum is taken out of some short-wave commercials, it looked as if the Plug Shrinkers club could count on a big AEF membership...
...brain," Sugarpuss turns out to be just what the encyclopedists need. They discover that the bed each of them has been sleeping in is a snoose, that long-time-no-see is just Indi an corn, that "stick close to the Ameche" means mind, the telephone, etc. Yum-yum, however, upsets the entire establishment. Sugarpuss demonstrates it to Professor Potts, and they wind up married...