Word: helle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk about that symbol of 'elegance' for the working-class woman, the white blouse. To hell with the white blouse . . . Those polka-dotted or checked blouses are now the vogue. You can get them for 47 to 59 forints ($4 to $5) in every department store . . . Don't tell me you can't afford...
...turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep the devil in Hell, pointed them upward in the Churchillian manner when they wanted evil to triumph. Reminded of this fact by a distraught Cornish woman, undistraught Mr. Churchill went right ahead giving his sign...
Stomach pump, hell-I demand an autopsy...
...bathe; they don't stipulate that it is unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres meses de infierno"-nine months of winter and three months of hell), traffic cops performed their duties beneath specially issued red & white parasols...
Meighan has railed for years against the "inefficiency of insincerity." Last fall he got a chance to prove his theories at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis. Meighan picked WCCO for experiment because its listening audience represents a happy medium between "salesman-shy" New Yorkers and "gullible-as-hell" Californians...