Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker, portly, pink Democratic national chairman, once had a horrid experience with some dice-so said the National Police Gazette's publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine...
With regard to zoot-suit disorders in Los Angeles, I think you have exaggerated the race angle out of all proportion. It is true that Mexican and Negro boys wear zoot suits out on the coast perhaps more than others. But to a soldier who has been taken from his...
Why does Los Angeles have these silly problem children rushing about in their ridiculous suits? Los Angeles has pressed the Negro and the Mexican into squalid ghettoes. Is it then so miraculous and amazing that this sordid environment does not produce model young Americans?
"Learn to Hate." Anticipating just such political warfare, Mussolini has wrapped a toga of self-righteousness about his sub-Napoleonic figure. More than two decades as the father of 20th-century Fascism have taught him how to play upon the childlike sentiment of millions of his people. While the Allies...
Long Live Blimp-But in the Daily Mail, thin-skinned Ward Price devoted an entire outraged column to the picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times...