Word: pretzelism
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...week swiftly settled a case arising under its order freezing workers in essential war jobs. Back to her war job in Elizabeth, NJ. went Miss Vernet Witham, 19, who had quit sewing shirts for soldiers and sailors to take up more congenial work in a nearby factory as a pretzel bender...
What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
After all, there is no other fool such as he. Anyone else would be ashamed to admit responsibility for the inanities he concocts. Kid stuff through and through--pianos on bicycls, pretzel-shaped air rifles, and baggy pants. But funny withal, and all because Mr. Wynn thought of it and does...
...social side of such a venture would not be unattractive as it would give married men an excuse for another night out a month, also enable all types of salesmen members to find new prospects and would probably increase the sales of the beer and pretzel businesses considerably...
...openly aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today the only one in Germany on active service. So far as "impossible" wives are concerned, Göring tied the Potsdam Code into pretzel shape and swallowed it when he married an actress with what is considered in Germany to be a Jewish name (Sonnemann), although she claims to be no Jewess. The Army swallowed her and it would have swallowed Blomberg's wife if she last week had really been the issue...