Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cripps called his new gadget a "special once-for-all levy." But the conservative Daily Telegraph assailed it as "class legislation of the worst type. ... A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker." Indignant investors were reminded that when Sir Robert Peel proposed an income tax in 1842 he had said: "I think it just to limit the duration to three years...
...strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
...whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...formerly Lipp's Lower Level), the big names were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...
...which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...