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Word: escapegoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postwar Whirl | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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