Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note about Oscar the seal in the Miscellany column [TIME, April 7] was not completely correct. I know as I met Captain Knowles very recently on a trip to Havana. He had owned Oscar ten years ago when the seal was only a few months old. One day a neighbor allowed Oscar to escape from his pen in the Captain's garden and until a few months ago no more was seen...
There was good reason why the crop of conscripts was being reaped. The Japanese neighbor, waving a sword in one hand and a pact with Russia in the other, was bearing down...
...shots of battle scenes, war planes, sea fights, etc., M.G.M.'s narrator offers an assortment of Nostradamus' predictions about the present war. One reads: "In Germany a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times. Roman power shall be completely abased, a great neighbor imitates his footsteps." That supposedly forecasts the rise of Hitler and Mussolini...
...Recalled that in December he had explained the Lend-Lease idea by comparing it to a person who lends his garden hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire. Last week, checking over the first list of non-military items asked by the British Purchasing Commission, Mr. Roosevelt noted the last three entries. They provided for a total of 900,000 feet of fire hose; cost...
None of these non-voting facts has shaken Mayor Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague. He was back and boss-busy last week after a winter vacation in Florida, where he hibernates annually in a Spanish villa on Biscayne Bay. There he occasionally visits with Neighbor Ed Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, occasionally drops in at the gambling rooms of the swanky Brook Club, watches the ponies from his box at Hialeah, and freshens up between times with Turkish baths and massages at the ocean-front Roman Pools. Mr. Hague's salary as mayor is $8,000 a year...