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Word: mosleyism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social equivalent of the nasty little hairdressers' assistants and boys from schools 'near Eton' and so forth who 'want Mosley' in England. . . . He suffered from sexual anxiety and a sense of impotence and race jealousy, a feeling very common below the Mason and Dixon Line in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Wells Sees Through It | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Expert | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Marriages, Muck. One of White's helpers lugged along a pot of honey, wherewith to soothe the voluble candidate's rasped throat. White reminded the voters that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley is vaguely related to His Lordship. Lord Hartington countered with the statement that White had himself actually been a follower of Mosley (when Sir Oswald was a Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tories & Circuses | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Virginia-born Lady Astor, M.P., tried to shush a group of workers who were demonstrating against the recent release of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley (TIME, Nov. 29). They riotously hooted her on her way into the House of Commons. There, when she interrupted a debate, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted: "Throw her out!" A Conservative Member complained that the Tories had had to "put up with" Nancy Astor for 20 years. When she applauded another remark with the usual British "Hear, hear," a Laborite cried: "Some of us would like to try." His colleagues cheered his rude suggestion that Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Provincial Lady | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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