Word: hyphenism
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...Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews...
...great many years had a Broadway season got off to so brilliant a start: by Christmas close to ten new attractions adorned the Main Stem. But few other new ones adorned it thereafter; the hyphen in 1947-48 was more like a period. And Broadway this spring drooped as noticeably at the box office as it did on the stage. But 1947-48 ranks as one of the better seasons for all that, and nearly as much for the things it tried as for the times it triumphed...
Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...
...Medicine. Dr. Montague F. Ashley-Montagu of Philadelphia no longer has a hyphen in his name...
...hula skirt and. . . ." H. H. Cleaves in Hawaii, Its People and Customs says ". . . the Hula is a Hawaiian dance. It is correct to say, 'a hula dancer' or 'a hula skirt.' However to say 'hula hula' or 'hula-hula' (with the hyphen) is merely repeating 'dance dance.' . . ." So, in keeping with your present ideas of Hawaii-Hawaii...