Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse to "call names.". . . If I want to do something along that line, why not incorporate the word "Munich," using it to signify "a bloodless coup achieved by bad faith, trickery and deceit...
...reader W.B. Smith's suggestion is followed, "Chamberlain" would be a suitable synonym. Or was aid furnished to Poland as promised. I missing news...
...suggestion for smart-aleck Reader Smith is a swift kick in the pants...
...Reactions to Reader Smith's suggestion that "hitler" be welcomed into the language as a lower-casenoun or verb, meaning a lie or to tell a lie (TIME, Oct. 23) were about equally divided...
...went to an airdrome and, in a hangar, personally decorated five members of the R. A. F. Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal...