Word: helle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Records were broken. Thermometers recorded 107° in Dallas, 98° in Chicago, 100° in Kansas City, 98° in Detroit, 103° in Cleveland, 101.2° in Philadelphia, 100.4° in Boston and 96° in Hell, Mich. In New York, Weather Bureau employees, who work without benefit of air conditioning, noted a temperature of 100.8°. The New York Telephone Co. answered more than 190,000 calls from people who said...
Said the New York Daily News, in U.S. idiom which no doubt would fascinate Jake: "This demand that Lomakin be jerked the hell out of here should have a wholesome effect on the overlords of the Kremlin...
...young lordlings who take her dancing are enthusiastic about her. One appraisal: "She's a hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME...
...against unions (the Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned...
Nature Boy. Unlike Marse Henry Watterson and his famous "to hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns," Wallace has never been known for outspoken editorials on politics. But no one ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man), or steel traps (he thought them inhumane). His most famous campaign was a five-year struggle which saved Cumberland Falls from a utilities syndicate headed by Sam Insull...