Word: nat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NAT SCHMULOWITZ...
...weary Britons last fortnight read these piquant queries in their favorite column-Nat Gubbins' "Sitting on the Fence" (TIME, Dec. 18)-and settled down to learn what "Dr. N. Gubbins, the notorious Fleet Street quack," had to say on the subject of psychoneurosis...
...Gubbins View. The Sunday Express' whimsical Nat Gubbins also discussed the V-day question...
...Britons ventured on "Happy New Year" greetings last week. Their New Year mood, conditioned by Rundstedt's drive and the prolongation of the five-year-old war, was caught by the relentless national jester Nat Gubbins (London Sunday Express): "By looking through the bottom of an upturned glass in a dimout [one can foresee that] the war, of course, will continue almost indefinitely, and as the people get more & more fed up with it the Government will lose its temper and impose stricter measures for keeping noses to the grindstone...
...pawky, pink-faced Nathaniel Gubbins lives with his buxom, red-topped wife, his two daughters, and assorted animals in a cozy house in Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...