Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleeve. Wrote PM's Managing Editor John P. Lewis in an editorial: ". . . The TIME report . . . nailed down the situation and our role in it better than we had been able to do ourselves. . . . 'Hyperthyroid' (take it from TIME) PM . . . appreciates the 'vim' tag but mildly denies 'characteristic shrillness.' Or - maybe I could, be wrong...
...Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
Among those the Tribune rapped: Arkansas's Representative J. W. Fulbright, whose plan for postwar international cooperation gives Tribune Publisher McCormick ideological chills & fever; OWI's Elmer Davis, whom the Tribune accused of having majored in the "tactic of vilification" while at Oxford; OONR (a Tribune tag meaning "Old Oxonians Not Rhodes Scholars") Marshall Field III (Eton and Cambridge), editor of the Tribune-rivaling Chicago Sun; OONR Henry R. Luce (Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford), editor of TIME...
...identified them all now," she said with the proper degree of sadness. "It wasn't a pleasant job, though. We had to dig one chap's dog tag out of his throat, and another had his wallet driven into his abdomen...
...Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence in camp of a glamorous star. At each performance a different star - Gertrude Lawrence, Ilona Massey, Carole Landis, Gypsy Rose Lee - turned up in person for the tag line...