Word: quislingism
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Quisling Kviss'-ling
Fifth Column. Sweden is a democratic country with a democratic King, a Social-Democratic Government, and the reputation of being one of the most liberal and socially progressive nations of the world. Within all such tolerant nations are extremists of the Right or the Left, usually willing to take the...
"Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British...
Norway's salvation lay in the hope that, in a non-Lexingtonian sense, the British were coming. This week, same day Traitor Quisling dropped his ministerial pretensions, the British arrived.
Chilean-born (but Spanish by title) Marquis George de Piedrablanca de Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for...