Word: blimping
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Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut. Colonel Sir Thomas Moore. M.P., into court, got him fined $29. Reason: over the doorway of the building where Wells lives, Sir Thomas had posted a large sign for a Salvation Army Service Club on the premises. Fumed the novelist: "[I am] entirely hostile to this needless cheapening of one of the best sites in London." Fumed the M.P. (who refused to tear down the sign): "They may prosecute me again. ... I shall bring the matter up in Parliament...
...striking shots Joseph Goebbels (see cut), his worried face contrasting with his impeccable overcoat, sees what the Allied bombers have done, and thinned-down Hermann Goring (see cut), looking like a deflated blimp, lolls at "a conference with a worried Adolf Hitler...
Made of a special unbreakable glass, the mirror is now being supplied by the hundred to soldiers, sailors and airmen. Example of its usefulness: a sailor adrift off Florida recently got rescued by signaling to a blimp six miles away...
General Wavell was in Britain, dividing his time between London and the country. Monocle in eye, he motored around in a black Packard. He revisited his old school, Winchester, talked to the boys about India, saw the movie Colonel Blimp, once complained: "One word of command from me is obeyed by millions . . . but I cannot get my three daughters, Pamela, Felicity and Joan, to come down to breakfast on time." In India, where the nationalist press criticized his appointment as vigorously as censorship allowed, he was likely to have more troubles than that...
Which led other Britons to wonder if Blimp was dead after...