Word: jingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with what was coming, the opening shots were almost idyllic. Beside savagely marching, stiffly saluting Nazis, Fascists, Reds, the blotchy, jerky old jingo shots from World War I looked like throw-backs to a simpler, sweeter time. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic Tsar looked like kindly, slightly fuddled grandfathers. Beside the Communazi conquerors of Poland and the Moscow pact-makers (shown first as outlaws, later as dictators over a combined 240 millions of lives) the Versailles Treaty-makers (Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando) looked unworldly and Utopian...
...many a Catholic off the streets and into his organization. Said he last week: "I speak their own language. When I talk to my boys I don't use any two-dollar words. I'm just one of the boys and we all get along fine. By jingo, we ... are the most patriotic people in the empire. No one is more British...
...social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
However, Baxter continued, the imperialist movement just beginning was to "bring the two countries together." Aroused by jingo editors, and bursting with nationalism, America was on the outlook for new foreign markets. Cleveland's Venezuela message in 1895 provided the spark for a conflict, but, Baxter said, "the crisis cleared the air." Instead of war England talked of conciliation, and in 1897 the charm of John Hay, ambassador to Great Britain, served to improve relations...