Word: hangdog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret recordings made of each WCCO announcer's readings of commercials. When the records were played back to the hangdog announcers, most of them admitted that they sounded terrible. One announcer pleaded that he had had to read the same old commercials for 2½ years and that he was as bored as his audience. Most announcers, Meighan says, "fail to comprehend the informality of listening. They are up on a soapbox while the audience is flopped on,a couch...
Glowing with hangdog good cheer, like a saloon bouncer turned babysitter, the U.S. Army bravely launched itself, last week, into a kind of ordeal by politeness. The first men of the new peacetime draft began reporting for induction, and the ground forces, by fiat from the Highest Brass, were duty bound to welcome them with smiles...
...sociology of Southern degeneracy, his "hangdog and hookworm" set have become boring stock types. There is, for example, Molly, who "was not the kind who would think of drawing a line between a married man and an unmarried man when it came to the matter of an evening's entertainment." Next to men, she liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow...
...London last week a troubled little orphan, the daughter of one of Britain's war heroines, whiled away the lonely hours wondering why her mother did not come back. In Ravensbruck, a group of hangdog Nazis were awaiting trial for her mother's murder...
...York Timesman Frederick Graham. Of the behavior of Germans remaining in the villages occupied by U.S. troops he wrote: "As a matter of honest reporting, it must be said that those left behind behave in a manner that is touched with quiet dignity. They do not have the hangdog look, and they do not give the impression that they want, or would even accept, sympathy. They give the appearance of people who have not lost either a belief in themselves or their dignity...