[Ads-l] cheesecake (picture, pose)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Stephen, I *have* seen the cartoon, and I believe the "cheesecake" is
coincidental.

Just a goofy name of the sort that used to be very common in the funnies.
Cf. your 1896.

JL

JL

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 7:10 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> OED n (2) has 1929; HDAS, 1934. Green's DoS offers (before a 1934) a 1913:
> T.A. Dorgan Daffydils<https://greensdictofslang.com/sources/9522> 15 Jan.
> [synd. cartoon strip] We present Mlle Cheesecake, the Maid of Mystery.
>
> I haven't seen that cartoon, so it isn't clear whether this might call for
> square brackets or not, e.g., if the "maid of mystery" is a fortune-teller
> or exotic or such.
>
> Maybe (or not) compare a (demeaning) description of a Mrs. Cheesecake in
> US newspapers in 1896, sarcastically titled "Intellectual."
> "Mrs. Cheesecake, is your son doing well at college?"
> "Well he can kick a football 40 yards."
>
> I don't have access to early now-digital (?) Variety.
> [Elvira Amazar 1915 and silk stockings hypotheses were previously
> mentioned in list archives.]
>
> SG
>
> {...cf. Zappa, Freak Out, Susie Creamcheese?}
>
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