Word: conscienceless
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This sennet on the wreathed Tory horn electrified Britons who had all but forgotten, during his five years of wartime Parliamentary speeches, what Churchill can do at the cry of partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash...
...hating Nashville Tennessean. He was annoyed beyond his limited endurance by the Tennessean's insistent labeling of Memphis as "Crumptown," and even more annoyed by its fight against the poll tax, which helps to keep bosses in power. Snapped Boss Ed: "This trio of mangy bubonic rats are conscienceless liars . . . cowards at heart, yellow to the core. . . . There is not one of them who, either singly or all together, would meet us on the street . . . and say the things to our faces that they have said in their scurrilous newspaper, behind our backs. The honeymoon of this lying, corroding...
Miscellany: Byrne--he of the trigger mind--urges the shortening of the Harvard deal to a two-week stint . . . Orchild of the week to the Welfare Office for the Kid Xmas Party . . . Things we still don't understand: Why they call Pike "Conscienceless" . . . Section A has learned that the two-finger rule must be applied in more than one of their classes--ask Cook . . . Tomorrow will be the first "normal" working Nooyers Day for quite a few of the communicators . . . Until next week, HNY and all that...
...though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical, he is nevertheless no cynic. He does not kindle, like a Boston Abolitionist, at one touch of the match. Nor would he blandly go to jail, like Thoreau, rather than pay taxes to a conscienceless Government. But if you provoke the Connecticut Yankee-or Wilbur Cross-you will discover that he is no softy, and he usually gets...
...American governor has "fingers that lust for gold." A U.S. newspaper reporter is "dissipated and dollar-greedy." The Nazi film captions him "a true-to-life American characterization." The rest of the cast are just miscellaneous rascals without character but "all more or less the type of the conscienceless plutocratic mammon...