Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sending the English-admiring Rosenberg on a visit to London. There he was snubbed by the Government leaders, and the leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...
...Dream. Tiny Marshville, Wis., dreamed of fame and fortune with a Christmas-letter business rivaling that of Santa Claus, Ind., asked Post Office Department permission to change its name to North Pole. Answer: Marshville's post office will be closed because of lack of business...
...Anonimo will have full opportunity to exercise his ability as a compromiser and political pacifier. Don Tinto's Popular Front Government, of which he is now the head, has been the victim of a tug of war between the Radicals and Socialists. Radical leaders are jockeying for the pole position in the next (1944) Presidential campaign. The Communists are lying ominously low. Chile's Rightists, Nazi sympathizers and the Army are waiting sharp-eyed for any crack in the Front...
...people, going to a Symphony concert is a plain and simple evil, and not even a necessary one--like sending birthday presents to great-aunts. But more than a few Harvard jitter-bugs and Totem Pole devotees have echoed the words of one Freshman who, on returning home after his first year at college, was asked what he'd grained culturally during the year...
Topics during the first week of his column (The Totem Pole), syndicated by United Features: a Chinese restaurant "ploplietor" who gives tips on Tiger Bone Wine; a waiter philosophizing on John D. Rockefeller's money worries ; an original account of how General Sherman coined the phrase "War is Hell...