Word: limey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scapegoats. In Rome, an announcer broadcast that the British had taken the Mediterranean isle of Linosa after fiercely defending goats fell asleep, had their throats cut by a limey midshipman who sneaked into their midst coated with a lotion that made him smell goaty...
...Limey!" hooted toughies. "I say, ole chahp," they drawled, making monocles with their fingers. With such normal antics, pupils in many a U. S. school this month greeted their small British guests. But by last week most of Britain's 2,700 young evacuees in the U. S. had begun to feel at home in U. S. schools. Teachers and pupils chuckled over differences in U. S. and British education...