Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week satirical "I Want To Be A Captain, Too" clubs were organized; buttons thus inscribed were worn throughout the East; a song was written to that slogan; and in Portland, Ore., 25 youths invaded a recruiting station, gave hard-boiled Sergeant Marley near-apoplexy by eagerly demanding they be enrolled as captains...
Alas, gone is the objectivity of your National Affairs section. When will you add the slogan "Veni Vidi Vilki" to your masthead...
...Russians have adopted the slogan, "We must surpass the capitalistic countries in industrialization." But I cannot believe they will ever surpass the United States in the production of cotton. Your figure of 3,000,000 tons must refer to seed cotton which would amount to around 4,000,000 bales of lint...
...ironic slogan went the rounds of London last week: "Join the Army and escape the war." Before the House of Commons Winston Churchill declared that, of 2,000 deaths in two weeks' raids, only one-fortieth were military casualties. Noncombatants were really getting it. One Army officer, surveying the ruins of an Oxford Street store, remarked: "Thank God I'm not a civilian...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More...