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Word: calfshead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Journalist in Naziland | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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