Word: yokum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl...