LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE — Term from SntMaster Dictionary

LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE

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a twelve-year-old orphan girl who was the main character of Little Orphan Annie, a comic strip by Harold Gray. Annie was described by Gray as having "a heart of gold, but a wicked left." She had a faithful dog named Sandy and a guardian named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks who was a billionaire capitalist and defender of free enterprise, rugged individualism and the Puritan ethic. In n o sense comic, Little Orphan Annie was a deadly serious work on the constant threats to the American way of life posed by subversive elements ranging from simple crooks to blind liberals to wily Communists. Annie's life was one of adventure and intrigue in which virtue fought evil at every turn. —Handbook for Preclears Glossary (app 9.7.90)