1958 Use of Smiley as a Noun


In a 1958 article titled Galloping Ghosts!, there was a drawing of a smiling, noseless face with two dots for eyes, eyebrows, and a single curving line for a mouth. by Bill Ross with the following text:

Collect six empty pop bottles and six cone-shaped paper cups. With crayons draw smiley faces on three of the cups and scary ones on the others. Put a cup on top of each bottle and line them up as 'ghosts.'...Keep score by counting five points for each scary-faced ghost knocked over and, since it is a night for spooks, only one point for each smiley!

This was part of the syndicated children's page "Junior TREASURE Chest," Edited by Marjorie Barrows, Editor of "The Children's Hour."

Galloping Ghosts! By Bill Ross

Galloping Ghosts! By Bill Ross

Article from Oct 26, 1958 The Tyler Courier-Times (Tyler, Texas) Smiley, Galloping ghosts! by bill ross, Junior treasure chest

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