Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cartoonist Jack Knox of the Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed some Southerners' feelings about "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." He showed Uncle Sam stepping on his own toes, exclaiming: Oh! Oh! Something is wrong with my right foot...
...King's car reached the Place de la Concorde, there broke out from the Eiffel Tower an enormous Union Jack, said to be the largest flag ever made. . . ." (TIME...
...feuds frothing to the surface last week. When the ballots were counted, Joe Curran, unopposed in the election, was nominally on top as president. But under him were four hostile members of the new national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager to move in on Curran headquarters in Manhattan...
Britishers will see him on the stage, hear him broadcast more expensively from Radio Normandie, Radio Luxembourg (continental stations which carry sponsored programs in English). In leaving BBC for greener pastures, he follows the lead of Band Leaders Jack Payne, Henry Hall, Variety Director Eric Maschwitz, many another...
...also does with contemporary Naziism) and it survives today in the writings of such eccentrics as Duke University's William McDougall. Most social psychologists have rejected the ethos as a scientifically useless personification, like the patriotic personification of "Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, believes that...