Word: blockhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Jellicoe ("an obstinate man . . . fundamentally weak, he did not even carry out orders when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year of the war and we've hardly tackled our main enemy, Germany...
...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...
...nights before the election Ibáñez supporters put on an enthusiastic but disorganized demonstration in a Santiago public square. Two nights later at least 30,000 Rios partisans marched in superb order into the Plaza Bulnes, carrying such anti-Ibáñez slogans as BLOCKHEAD, RETURN TO BERLIN and LET'S TURN HIM OVER TO JAPAN...
...main drive (see map) bogged a bit. Beyond dreary Minsk with its old Polish manor houses made over into collective-farm headquarters, beyond the White Russian villages with their bumptious names (They've Caught Fire, It Didn't Rain, Big Blockhead, etc.), the going got tougher. The initial Nazi torrent, catching the Russians with their rubbers off, had swept ahead breathtakingly. But in the second week it began to look as if that early ease had been misleading. The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return...
...brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says Author Wilson: "As the years go on, the word Esel (jackass) seems almost to become synonymous with human being...