Word: heil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buffoon Manufacturer. In Wisconsin, ten candidates for Governor in all four parties-Democrat, Republican, Progressive and Socialist-campaigned against Republican Governor Julius P. ("The Just") Heil, hoping to capitalize on Heil's buffoonery and isolationist leanings. They lambasted him for failure to spend more than one-fourth of his time on his Governor's duties, for neglecting to call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted...
Good sequence: Woolley's last waif, the half-Jewish niece of a Gestapo agent, is brought to the dock for transshipment to the U.S. with the help of the Piper. She heils Hitler. Her Gestapo uncle reproves her. "Nicht mehr Heil Hitler?" she asks. "Nein," warns her uncle. "Gut!" says the solemn little girl...
What in the world happened to you?" "Heil Hitler," said Heydrich. "It was the Czechs who did it, the yellow democratic curs. They bombed my car last week, outside Prague, while I was on my way back to Berlin to tell the Fuhrer (Heil Hitler!') that Czecho-Slovakia had at last been Germanized. Two men bombed me and then shot up my spine with tommy guns, the contemptible, bicycling plutocrats-Heil Hitler!" "Come, come," said the Devil. "Let's forget the 'Heil Hitler' business for a while. Remember we're all sons of bitches here...
...here in Lüderitz when the war broke that a teacher had told her class: 'From today, don't say Heil Hitler. Say Good morning and Good evening. I shall tell you when to resume Heil Hitler...
...natives. A half-dozen bumptious young men of God arrived a few years ago, and tried to recruit the rest of the mission staff for Naziism. But what-if the stories were true- could be funnier than a potbellied native youngster, ramming out his hand in a ludicrous Heil? The few Australian colonials at Salamaua, Lae and Port Moresby found it very hard to worry about Finschhafen...