Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...
...tall, cadaverous man of 52, dressed in blue serge and a green "ratcatcher" cap given him by his mother, he broods over the mating habits of spiders, has written a book on Parrots and Parrotlike Birds in Aviculture. Last week he published a new work, an anti-war pamphlet called What a Game! It put him back in the hot water he has stewed in for most of World...
...Hamburg, a teacher displayed to his class a pamphlet, The Jews in the U.S.A., with pictures of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia beside a gorilla, "Jewish Judge Marcus Pecora" (presumably meaning New York Justice Ferdinand Pecora-who is a gentile), the "Jewess" Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. At lesson's end, the teacher asked: "And what do you think of a country like that?" The class roared the Nazi Party battle cry: Judah verrecke! ("Death to the Jews...
...degree to which convention is outraged is up to the hostess,' declares the little pamphlet issued by the employment office. 'I am an opportunist,' says Jeeves, who happens to live in Lowell House, 'and I grab my chances where I see them...
...There is practically no undergraduate interest, and certainly no important one, which has not been shared and furthered by National Scholars," declares the pamphlet. "In each of the classes in which National Scholars have graduated, one of the class marshals has been a National Scholar...