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The term "dogface" to describe an American soldier appeared in print at least as early as 1935. [5] [6] Contemporaneous newspapers accounted for the nickname by explaining that soldiers "wear dog-tags, sleep in pup tents, and are always growling about something" and "the army is a dog's life...and when they want us, they whistle for us."
The Pillsbury Doughboy was created by Rudolph 'Rudy' Perz, a copywriter for Pillsbury's longtime advertising agency Leo Burnett. [2] [3] Perz was sitting in his kitchen in the spring of 1965, under pressure to create an advertising campaign for Pillsbury's refrigerated dough product line (biscuits, dinner rolls, sweet rolls, and cookies).
"Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I. [1] Though the origins of the term are not certain, [ 2 ] the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by " G.I. " as the following generation enlisted in World War II [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The Pillsbury Doughboy has a name -- and you've probably never even heard it before. The cheerful mascot made his debut in a television commercial that aired on November 7, 1965.
Saints Ahrakas and Oghani as dogheads (dogfaces to a degree, as the hair is human); 18th-century Coptic icon. Long before modern comics and animation, dog-headed people (called cynocephalics, from Greek κυνοκέφαλοι (kynokephaloi), from κύων-(dog-) and κεφαλή (head)) have been depicted in art and legend in many cultures, beginning no later than ancient Egypt.
The Spirit of the American Doughboy is a pressed copper sculpture by E. M. Viquesney, designed to honor the veterans and casualties of World War I. Mass-produced during the 1920s and 1930s for communities throughout the United States, the statue's design was the most popular of its kind, spawning a wave of collectible miniatures and related ...
Randolph may actually have said "doe faces": the pronunciation would have been identical, and Randolph was a hunter, sometimes bringing his hunting dog with him to Congress. Ascribing "doe faces" (or "doe's faces") to those he despised would have been Randolph's comment on the weakness of these men. [2]
Doughboy is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a dough-like artificial lifeform who was created by and often appears in association with Arnim Zola. Doughboy has made limited appearances in media outside comics, with Grant Moninger voicing him in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.