Word: kickapoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kickapoo joy juice in a bathtub appears to be one of the highlights of the "Dogpatch Cotillion" which has been scheduled for March 15. The forthcoming dance was announced recently at a Freshman Union Committee meeting...
Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis...
...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
After the will to resist has been sapped with the traditional Kickapoo Joy Juice, the boys will be given a three minute head start. The chances are, though, that they won't run too fast or hide too well, for girls from Wellesley, Sargent, Radcliffe, and Simmons, among others, are expected to chase them. Unfortunately for the gals, the original Marrying Sam will not be present. There will, however, be an imposter with full power to perform common-law marriages, and adequate divorce facilities...