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Goops

naughty, balloon-headed children. [Am. Lit.: Goops and How To Be Them, Hart, 323]
See: Coarseness
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Gellett Burgess (aka Frank Gellett), Goops and how to be them; a manual of manners for polite infants inculcating many juvenile virtues both by precept and example (New York, 1900), no page numbers.
The popular Goop Tales (also called a manual of manners) by Gellett Burgess (aka Frank Gellett) which were published between 1900 and 1916 included, among a wide variety of behaviors, attention to self-cleaning as the sign of the perfect child.
Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement

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