Word: decanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly galling to patriotic homebodies were his frequent junkets into darkest Nazi Germany, whence he would return to his sanctum at No. 175 Piccadilly to decant fresh magnums of purple ink in praise of totalitarianism. In The Aeroplane for July 5 he finally rared back and delivered this sockdolager: "Even the misguided English Foreign Policy which tried to make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read...