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Further potent recollecting was performed, in Berlin, by Poet Ernst Lissauer, composer of the famed Hymn of Hate, popularizer of the exclamation "Gott Strafe England...
...Gott strafe* England...
...London, it was announced that the new Oxford English Dictionary, now being compiled, would include and define English slang expressions coined during the War, such as: "dud," "doughboy," "strafe." The expression "Getting the wind up," meaning "to become nervous," was said to be puzzling the lexicographers, who finally decided to leave its origin indefinite. Common belief is that this phrase originated with the British air forces. Aviators, to whom wind meant danger, used "getting the wind up" as an equivalent for "borrowing trouble...
...further says: "The expressions of admiration for Hughes are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-Germans throughout the country who are prepared to 'strafe' Wilson for his independent Americanism." The phrasing of this sentence has unfortuately befogged its meaning, but I assert that the majority of Republicans, whether in the University or not, are far from militaristic. Moreover, if, as he says, the Hughes supporters are pro-Ally, I fall to see how this constitutes an indictment against them, inasmuch as it is the pro-Germans who "are prepared to 'strafe' Wilson...
...figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes; (2) the expressions of admiration for Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth except the sole (visible and the apparently eternal issue) of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country. If those three facts...