Word: kike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the years, the editors met frequently, debated what to do about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
Last week, as judge, jurors, lawyers and reporters sat listening through earphones, some of her recorded broadcasts were played back in the courtroom. "I love America," said her voice, between recordings of U.S. jazz, "but I do not love Roosevelt and all his kike boy friends...
...laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily in the halls of the Senate office building, wore a big, rose-trimmed...
Replied John Rankin: "The little kike I was telling you about the other day, who called this body the 'House of Reprehensibles...
Through the Defender's good name, Editor "Pagnanelli" met fascist James True, who had taken out a patent for his "kike-killer"-a truncheon that came in two sizes, one for use by ladies...