Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine of one hardy expert on the burning word, the President had not been daring at all, but unforgivably commonplace and unimaginative. In The American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon...
Paraguay had its sixth coup in 13 months. Without firing a shot, the army kicked General Raimundo Rolón out of the presidency and supplanted him with Education Minister Felipe Molas López, a dentist...
...April, was to invite Paraguay's thousands of political exiles to come home and vote. That was strictly contrary to the wishes of the dominant Colorado party, which ran last year's elections on a one-party basis. Colorado chieftains, who wanted to make Dentist Molas López President in April, began to suspect that Rolón was getting ready to stand as a candidate himself...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Walter G. Muelder, Dean of the Boston University School of Theology, were on the panel. Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence was moderator...
...elections for the Kirkland House Committee held yesterday one present incumbent and six new men won posts. Those elected are Bruce Harriman '50, the incumbent, and Patrick B. M. McCormick '50, Alan A. Stone '50, Walter B. Raushenbush '50, Thomas L. O'Donoghue '51, John T. Hazel '51, and James P. Johnson...