Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Momentarily overshadowed by the doom-clappers were the day-to-day, irritating small fry, Lords Haw-Haw and Hee-Haw, Lady Hee-Hee, Schmidt & Smith, Fritz & Fred. But not for long. With the invasion of the Low Countries a fact, the propagandists blared with renewed vigor. England's BBC continued its dry, unemotional, institutional adver-"ising of the Allied cause; Germany, trying hard to sell the righteousness of its aims to neutral listeners, found a man for American-language broadcasts, a pitchman-voiced commentator who called himself E. D. Ward...
...self-styled "Irish-American," Ward says little that would identify him to a U. S. audience. Like his English counterpart Lord Haw-Haw, Ward preferred to remain unknown, once admitted: "America is my natal land. . . . I'm not so blind that I can't see where we may learn something from others, and I myself am one of those most in need of education. ... I had become a bored and cynical NOman...
...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...
...Fisher" says to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "We are very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What a droll coincidence!" Working overtime last week was Germany's English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have...
...American Actor Ben Lyon taught voluptuous, blonde Edna Powell the orthodox Minsky technique for her tease in Haw Haw, playing at the Holborn Empire...