Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive committee for the Congress chosen by the group of undergraduate leaders consists of Raymond Mildenberger '40, Michael P. Grace '40, Lawrence Radway '40, Randall Leckwood '40, Miss Frances Butler, Radcliffe '40, Miss Maureen Pupkin, Radcliffe '40, and Miss Theodora Roosevelt, Radcliffe...
...Washington, Alicia Butler, 17, vexed because Elvin Hanback, 18, did not speak to her for a week after a spat, picketed his home wearing a sign, "Elvin is Unfair to Alicia," Result: peaceful settlement...
President of U. C. A. P. A. W. A. (pronounced Ucápawa for short) is Donald Henderson, who according to Messrs. Butler and Mitchell used to be a central committeeman of the Communist Party. If Mr. Henderson is no longer a Communist, as he tells his C. I. 0. superiors, he smells like one to Socialists Butler & Mitchell. Last week they accused him of deliberately wrecking their union to subordinate it to the Communist Party. They declared that he confused simple Southern Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside...
Most unusual of Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's fiestas was one for Dr. Emil Rothman on his return from Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...
...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...