Word: fathead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often Neill is voted down by the council. Once he tried to introduce automatic fines for swearing. He took a shrewd line: "Why should I suffer if some fathead swears in front of a prospective parent? It's not a moral question at all; it is purely financial. You swear and I lose a pupil." Said a 14-year-old: "Neill is talking rot. If the parent is shocked he doesn't believe in Summerhill anyway." The council decided to go on swearing...
...Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came from Ireland or France or Russia? Wouldn't I be a fathead...
...services, often are bothered by gremlins who sit on their shoulders and make a noise like a knocking motor when the motor is running smoothly. When a pilot has been flying for a long time through clouds, a gremlin may whisper into the pilot's ear: "You fathead, you're flying upside down!" The pilot then hurriedly turns over and flies upside down while the gremlin laughs and laughs, silently. Another favorite gremlin trick is to climb into gun barrels and deflect bullets. (But usually this is done by widgets.) Sometimes a gremlin puts his finger over...
...which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...