Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...
...contrary opinion are most of His Majesty's subjects. They hold the British Empire "greatest." Recently Scot Mac-Donald was called "traitor" by the precious-precocious son of Conservative Winston Churchill (TIME, Feb. 23). In Britain's coming electoral campaign Conservative candidates & professional patriots will roast J. R. M. for his generous, reckless major burble...
...Lesser in her hierarchy were "prophets" and "apostles." They bred fowl; dug for themselves a "Sea of Gethsemane"; prayed to a vast, crudely carved Jesus, who was black because the Scriptures did not say that he was not black. Awesome was the Deity, a towering figure the color of roast potatoes, made of clay and burlap...
...Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" the manifesto began. "And down with sauerkraut in Germany-the most abominable of all inventions...
Sudden Awakening: "Flat Tire!" In the Palais-Bourbon, imposing seat of French Deputies, foes of sly old Br'er Briand thought they had sufficiently prepared to roast him when the Chamber convened last week...