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Word: schmoe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmoe told you that somebody positively isn't an anti-semite because this somebody just said that "some of his best friends are Jews," you would probably think Joe was kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

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