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1909 R. O'Neill in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 28/1 The Kewpie wights stay up at nights, All gayly singing rum-te-tum.

1909 R. O'Neill in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 28/1 The reason why these funny, roly-poly creatures are called Kewpies..is because they look like little Cupids.

1912 R. O'Neill in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 109 The kewpies were invented by Rose O'Neill. They are always doing good, helping Dotty Darling and her Baby Brother to have a good time... So Rose O'Neill has made the Kewpie Kutouts.

1913 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 May 536/1 Rose O'Neill Wilson... Kewpie. Particular description of goods.—Dolls.

1922 A. Haddon Green Room Gossip 176 The floor is strewn with at least fifty toys—teddy bears, golliwogs, bunnies, and woolly mascots galore. Kewpies, too, on the dressing-table.

1926 G. S. Chappell Younger Married Set iv. 48 I have here..a magnificent kewpie doll.

1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xxii. 324 Over the screened hearth, on a low mantel, there was a Kewpie doll, sashed with pink ribbon.

1937 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 June 543/2 Rose O'Neill Wilson. The Kewpies. For Cartoons in Periodical Publications. Claims use since Dec. 21, 1912.

1937 J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men iii. 93 They got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph.

1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger vii. 60 Outside the turnstiles, vendors vie for custom, waving gilded cupie dolls on canes.

1946 I. L. Idriess In Crocodile Land xxvi. 180 With the little black kewpie of a piccanin aboard her tiny canoe, Wagis paddled downstream towards the river mouth.

1947 Archit. Rev. 101 206/3 There are dolls for sale on the pier, too, Kewpie or cuddly or fashionable.

1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) ii. 18 Decorated with the same rag-dolls and teddy-bears, pink kewpies won at shooting-ranges.

1954 Encounter Feb. 52/1 Art Young, a white-haired little kewpie, sitting in a corner, was pointed out to me.

1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers 62 A kewpie doll. One of those tiny celluloid kewpie dolls you can buy in the dime store.

1960 Birmingham Mail 13 June 3/4 Each year Roo..has brought his woman..a cupie-doll.

1960 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 30 Aug. tm174/1 Cameo Doll Products Co., Inc., Port Allegany, Pa... Kewpie. For Dolls.

1961 A. Christie Pale Horse v. 67 A most terrible Kewpie doll from the hoop-la.

1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning viii. 80 She'd be like some kewpie doll, all sheen and varnish and eyes that really roll.

1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha iii. 126 Kewpie dolls..staring at you stupidly and insanely from their glass eyes.

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 July 12/6 (advt.) Kewpie Dolls, made of pure barley sugar, a box 10¢.

1918 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 385/3 Kewpie Kandy Dolls are made from the pure cane sugar... Twelve little kewpie dolls in each package.