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...word 'bloody' will be used more & more often in speeches and newspapers by those who always wanted to write rude things on walls and now, thanks to the war, can say 'bloody' and write 'bloody' as often as they like to their heart's content...
...Emanuel Shinwell shouted: "Throw her out!" A Conservative Member complained that the Tories had had to "put up with" Nancy Astor for 20 years. When she applauded another remark with the usual British "Hear, hear," a Laborite cried: "Some of us would like to try." His colleagues cheered his rude suggestion that Nancy, Lady Astor, the Provincial Lady of two nations, should subside, permanently...
...boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked of the childish misery-not until New York's PM (and John Roy Carlson's national bestseller, Under Cover) had given Governor Saltonstall "a rude awakening" (TIME...
...schools (once for exploding homemade bombs), expelled from two colleges. Yale classmates were not overly surprised when youthful Lucius swept a tableful of dishes to the floor of Billy Bander's Eating House, crying: "Come, come, Bander, give us your best delft and pewter, Bander, none of this rude crockery!" But Yale authorities were annoyed when Lucius appeared conspicuously in a box at the Hyperion Burlesque Theater, cried: "I am Professor [Henry Hallam] Tweedy of the Yale Divinity School!" and tossed an empty bottle to the stage. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Yale and entered Harvard...
Your issue of Nov. 3 quotes "aristocratic" Leverett Saltonstall's reference to the "stinking" article in PM and his apologetic explanation a few days later that he had "had a rude awakening on Monday...