Word: brut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered, chin-bearded little man who said those words in 1917 was Cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (rhymes with ma-mockers). A half-German Dutchman, Cartoonist Raemaekers "wrote" (his own word) charcoal drawings which stirred the world to fury against the brut ish Hun. He just didn't like Germans. When he arrived in Manhattan in 1917 to propagandize and work for Hearstpapers, Raemaekers said quietly: "It would be better - I know it is impossible, but still it would be better- if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...