Word: jingoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, written by Clem Wood and Jingo Carroll, while not up to the standards set by the score, is consistently competent as a vehicle and perfectly adapted to the cast. The plot--The New Deal a la Luce in sleepy Anygnay, S.A.--is sufficiently irrational to set off the sharpness of the lines themselves, and needs comparatively little further consideration...
Twenty-three intrepid CRIMSON editors met in secret conclave yesterday and emerged hours later tight-lipped, red-eyed and filled to the brim grimly to announce that they would meet the Jingo Journalists of the Daily despite the Nassaumon's admitted subsidization program...
...Brooklyn, John Roy Carlson, best-selling I-spyer on suspected subverters (Under Cover, The Plotters), appeared at a police station with head and face bruised. Shortly after he had eyewitnessed a night meeting of the jingo Women for the United States of America, said he, three strangers (male) stopped him on the street, gave him a shellacking, ran away...
...Rhodes trustees, took a look at the first 1,100 Yanks who went to Oxford that way (The American Rhodes Scholarships, Princeton University Press; $2). Had Rhodes scholarships produced a batch of Anglophiles? Aydelotte thinks not. Says he: "The American Rhodes scholar learns to respect his country as the jingo never does. He learns to be jealous of her action in those things that matter...
Almost forgotten in the flurry of speculation was the appointment of the new Fleet Commander: puffy-faced, 59-year-old Soemu Toyoda, a skilled naval technician, who had thus far sat this war out in and near Tokyo, cannily managed to be known as a bitter-end jingo...