Word: pl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...
Boston (N), Richmond (PL) rain...
Reverend Anarchist. The 100,000 franc ($830) Pléiade Prize went to a 33-year-old Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory...
These and other details of the New Order's Plünderpraxis (sack technique) were corroborated last week in Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three...
When Hermann Göring, who loves nice things and is a great hand at Plünderpraxis, visited Athens in 1935, Mayor Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection...