Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Long Live Blimp-But in the Daily Mail, thin-skinned Ward Price devoted an entire outraged column to the picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times of war. ... In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who . . . gave...
Which led other Britons to wonder if Blimp was dead after...