Word: cameleer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dailies tried to approach the A. N. P. A.'s end-elimination of free advertising-by less violent means. By agreement of the Publishers' Association of New York City all newspapers continued to print fairly complete radio programs but struck out all names of sponsors. Thus the Camel Quarter Hour became simply "Morton Downey, tenor; orchestra; talk, Anthony Wons" ; Lucky Strike was not mentioned in the listing of "B. A. Rolfe Orchestra...
...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...
Came a picture of a laughing camel last week from Stalingrad-namesake town of Dictator Josef Stalin. At the Stalingrad Tractor Works ("world's largest") there have been 2,789 breakdowns of machinery in four months. Production for 1930 was scheduled at 50,000 tractors. It was 47,000 tractors behind schedule at the close of the year...
...spur the workers, to make them ashamed of their clumsiness, the Government has conferred upon Stalingrad in mocking poster form "The Order of the Camel for Lazy Work & Breakage.'' Anyone can see that the camel (see cut) is laughing, hee-hawing, mocking clumsy workers...
...most European countries to call a man a camel (French chameau, German Kamel) is merely to call him "stupid" or a "simp." Most insulting in French or German are compounds of animal names such as "You camel-toad-elephant-crocodile-rat-pig!" If a one-word insult is wanted it is hard to do better in French than saligod (filthy beast), in German, schweinpelz (filthy beast...