Word: backward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of jape that Harry Truman thoroughly enjoys and he joined in with zest. Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.* Margaret wore a shoe-length slicker and sou'wester, which made her look like a Morton Salt boy. She was told to mount watch for Davy Jones, who traditionally appears the day before crossing...
...knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback...
...Worst of all, the effort to develop such an unnatural alliance of backward states must alienate the natural allies...
...Looking Backward. During his first speech, on the City Hall steps, the Prime Minister recalled that he was born "a stone's throw from here, if you have a strong throwing arm." He remembered that his second home was on Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked...
...Looking Backward. As Adam's wife, Sophie's abilities as a designer have not always been above suspicion in the skeptical dress industry. Her rivals try to belittle her by saying: "After all, she's the boss's wife." But no one who knows Adam really believes that that's the answer. Sophie has her job because she has earned it. And in the backbiting world of fashion she is quite able to take care of herself. As Sophie says, in her most ladylike tones: "After all, my dear, Hattie Carnegie isn't really...