Word: soubriquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most heroic living name in the U. S., Lindbergh is now a hated word in Communist, Jewish and other anti-Nazi groups. With Charles Augustus Lindbergh taking Nazi medals and househunting in Berlin, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., last week paid the new anti-Lindberghism the deference of dropping its soubriquet of "The Lindbergh Line...
...Victories" Wei Li-huang. They were harassing the Japanese shoulder to shoulder last week, although four years ago the Chinese Government was offering $100,000 for the "Red Napoleon" alive or $80,000 for him dead; and the "100 Victories" (more or less) which earned General Wei his soubriquet were won in skirmishes aimed to exterminate the Chinese communists of General...
First cinema appearance of "New Face" Parkyakarkus was in Strike Me Pink (1936), as Eddie Cantor's stooge. As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein...
...existed between Phillips Brooks House where the entire commuting body crowded into insufficient quarters and hampered the smooth running of the Social Service menage; the Dean's office where lack of funds or building blocked reform; and the Day Scholars who saw themselves, with justice, the owners of the soubriquet, "the University's forgotten...
Tuesday September twenty-ninth nineteen-thirty six! From a little farmhouse in Alsace, just a stone's throw from the German Rhineland which Dictator Hitler has so recently fortified, comes this scene of European fear and trembling. It is the dining-room of Pierre Soubriquet, an Alsatian farmer like many of his kind. Around him are seated his wife, Adelaide, and their four young children. M. Soubriquet is speaking...