Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If any lady in your household is ever compelled to hold a press conference, entreat her not to condescend to newspaper women.-Columnist Helen Essary in the Washington Times-Herald (in an open letter "to the next British Ambassador")
Would the Queen "do something human while she is here, like going shopping?" Sir Ronald almost swallowed his walrus-mustache at that one. If shopping became necessary, he thought Her Majesty probably would send her maid.
If ham-fisted Congressman Martin Dies had been able to call Orson Welles's Martians before his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities he could not have extracted a more lurid story than he got last week. Witnesses testified in all seriousness to their belief in:
Frightened Dudley Gilbert passed the dire information on to two men of action: James Erwin Campbell, Army reserve captain and V. F. W. official of Owensboro, Ky., and George E. Deatherage, a St. Albans, W. Va., house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights...
With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican...