The motto here at “Trivially Speaking” is “E-I-E,” not from the “Farmer in the Dell” (E-I-E-I-O). Ours stands for “Educate, Inform, Entertain” — or best two out of three, no, just kidding; we take ...

In 1909, artist Rose O’Neil designed the first Kewpie doll as a magazine illustration for Ladies’ Home Journal. By the ‘20s, the big-eyed, often naked cartoon-like drawings came to life as a toy doll ...

Kewpies were the creative invention of illustrator Rose O'Neill. Bonniebrook Historical Society in Walnut Shade, MO In 1914, a crowd gathered at the fairgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee. After enduring ...

BRANSON, Mo. -- One hundred years ago, a doll whose image was born in a studio near Branson was about to become a global sensation. Rose O'Neill was already a successful artist in 1912. At 38, she had ...

SPRINGFIELD - A Hickman High School graduate has surrounded herself with Kewpies. The dolls' trademark round eyes watch happily from every corner of the dining room. Alice Ramey, class of '74, has ...