Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that party and that press are parties to a conspiracy of immorality . . . that makes the Democratic RFC shenanigans look like peanuts: I refer to the continued immorality that is McCarthyism . . . A Bipartisan Moral Policy is in order. HARRY MARGOLIS
Columbia comedians were forbidden, on pain of $10 fines, to use profanity. Lahr was also instructed in other taboos: it was considered offensive to refer either to rats or false teeth. The shows were, in effect, well-staged revues, and were often reviewed by critics. In this heady atmosphere Lahr felt a new need. Funnymen, like birds of passage, are best identified by their distinctive cries. He developed one which sounded as though he were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience...
...Nicknames: "The Princess is always 'Ma'am' to you. But very privately to themselves, her friends refer to her as P-2 " (i.e., Princess...
From the upper echelons, the word came down: no more shall any Army handout, speech or record refer to an infantryman as a G.I. The Army thought that G.I. (which came out of World War II and stands for Government Issue) was too undignified. Henceforth, "all references to a man in the Army should identify him primarily as a soldier . . . The term soldier is ancient and honorable. Webster defines a soldier as 'a skilled warrior' and never before in history has a soldier so richly deserved this definition...
...Wollweber spent the last years of the war in Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany...