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| | Comprise, Nosy Parker, Sea Change, Good King Dimple, Effect & Affect, Standing In Line/On Line, Kewpie Dolls, and ... |
 | | So I told him my best guess and asked, "Do I win a kewpie doll?" And then I proceeded to wonder what the heck a kewpie doll is and why it is called that. |
 | | The kewpie doll was the invention of a commercial illustrator named Rose O'Neill, whose work, notes Ciardi, "was given to flowing designs of winged, glowing, innocent creatures." The name "kewpie" was, as you may suspect by now, a modification of "Cupid." |
 | | Although the kewpie doll made Rose O'Neill a wealthy woman, ironically, her invention is best remembered for its post-kewpie-craze afterlife as, yes, a tacky carnival prize. |
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