Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy up to speak in this fashion, Mr. Thompson testified, was a reference to the condemnation...
...language is often intemperate. "I am suggesting to you," purred Sir Patrick, "that directly people asked you questions about Communists you were no longer the gentleman you appear now. You were a domineering autocratic and rather bad-tempered gentleman at the head of an office saying that Communists were swine and that if they did not behave themselves they would be shot." ''Not so," replied Putzy. ''Did you not also," Sir Patrick continued, "say that 'Catholic priests are swines and traitors-swines, all swines! All Catholics are swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied...
...When Minnesota beat Iowa at football last week Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa lost a bet of one prize swine to Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota. Curtis Dall, ex-son-in-law of the President, a guest of Governor Herring at the game, suggested that the pig should be named "New Deal." When Governor Herring rejected the suggestion, the father of the President's two favorite grandchildren retorted, "Then I think you ought to grease it a little with cold cream to make it a smoother proposition...
...margin of starvation. Seaching for a fresh face, a producer is taken with a photograph of the wife and offers her the lead in his forthcoming production which is to star Friedrich Gurtler, a tremendous matinee idol who is also, as he himself delicately puts it, a swine. This means that he gets what he wants and at the moment he has an uncontrollable yen for the young wife. She loves her husband deeply but Gurtler, the cad, tells her candidly that it's to bed with him or starvation. Her husband doesn't put up a strong show...
Died. Charles Vilas Truax, 48, Representative-at-Large from Ohio since 1932, longtime hog-breeder, onetime editor of The Swine World; of a heart attack; in Washington...