Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 15 years have shown a verbal inventiveness that, says Mencken, is "the most riotous seen in the world since the break-up of Latin." Some of the results are rooted in the New Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high...
...whispering behind locked Spanish royalist doors in Switzerland was all but deafening. Spain's royal family, in exile since 1931, was getting interested in the situation at home...
...Switzerland royalist eardrums were strained almost to the bursting point. But the awaited word was not heard. Franco, though clearly a monarchist, had failed to say who would be king-or when...
...expense, on the benefits of National Socialism. He demanded that Vichy take stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...
...instructions from London [many rich Americans are] not only pro-Royalist but pro-Communist...