Word: castor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherwood Anderson, novelist: "My wife Beanie home from Italy and was surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment...
...Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat Bolshevism. It is said that he chose black on purely utilitarian grounds, including the financial aspect of decreased laundry bills. Having become a Napoleon overnight, he armed his black shirted minions with castor oil and the party song, Giovinezza?both equally deadly...
Although the Fascisti cannot be absolved from using armed force against the civil population, Mussolini's coup d'�tat of . October, 1922, was largely effected by the potency of his castor oil and the monotony of Giovinezza...
What Has Happened When Children Cry for Castor...
...then, does this modern realism sell? The public pays to be castigated. It prefers castor oil to Coca-Cola. Perhaps this realism is a sort of invert flattery. Everyone sees Babbitt in his neighbor. Nobody sees Babbitt in himself. That is highly satisfactory...