Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time after that, old Michael Joyce of Dulwich Common, London refused to admit that Lord Haw-Haw was his son. He would not listen to Haw-Haw's voice...
...engaged by the Government to train R. A. F. pilots to speak clearly by radio telephone. His pronunciation handbooks are regarded as standard for the King's English pure and undefiled, and he wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on pronunciation. Declaring that BBC announcers were "too haw haw" in their diction, he is responsible for the nickname "Lord Haw-Haw" given to Nazi Propagandist William Joyce...
Before Nazi bombing began to interfere with England's weekends and England's sleep, the Nazi propagandist that London dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" caught many a listening British ear. Nightly from Germany, in accents more Oxonian than the Isis, he sneered at Britain's martial aims, deplored the bucktoothed poverty of the British populace, condemned Britain's leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British...
...Lord Haw-Haw himself-who never answered to that name-guarded his incognito. But last year, his effectiveness reduced as the war grew progressively less phony, he decided to tell all in a pseudo-philosophical autobiography. Haw-Haw's dubious masterwork has had small sale in Germany, none in Great Britain and the U. S. Last week, borne to the U. S. by ace Radio Correspondent William L. Shirer, top-flight newshawk for CBS, a copy of Haw-Haw's apologia turned up in CBS' Manhattan offices...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...