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ORPHAN ANNIE
ORPHAN ANNIE
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a twelve-year-
old
orphan
girl
who was the
main
character
o f
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.
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