Word: doormat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow bigger Adolf breaks off and munches a piece of the globe labeled Poland. He wanders off. He comes to the house of the March Into, who is having substitute tea with the Mad Flatterer and the Doormat...
...Doormat: "You might as well say that 'Germans believe what they hear' is the same as 'Germans hear what they believe...
Long before the church bells rang, perspiring circulation men dumped at least one of the fat papers free on every Columbus doormat...
...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...
...Edward of Windsor as a doormat on which aspersions may be wiped was the risky game started by the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Dec. 21), and up to play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits...