Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Astor, drawing newshawks as a honeypot draws flies, was still ad-libbing for publication, three weeks after she landed in the U.S. Her advice to U.S. Anglophobes: "You had better get on your knees and thank God for Great Britain." Her advice to occupation authorities: "I would send a Salvation Army to Europe with Bibles. ..." Lady Astor on the sexes: "Women have more moral courage than men. . . . We didn't make this world." On the future of the male: "I think you ought to have a rest, really...
...Thank you for publishing Mary Burnite's open letter to the Government [TIME, Jan. 7] concerning relief for Europe. Why are we not rationed on food when people are starving? I am ashamed to be an American...
...town and count the drunks and smell the liquor; does it shock you? Nauseate you? If those at home can do it, why not the boys who bled and fought for you? Instead of running down the American youth as you seem to delight in doing, you should thank your God that it is Americans running wild in Europe and not Nazis and Japs running wild...
Finally someone said, "Thank you, General Wedemeyer." We all stood up and he strode out, looking a little more harried than when he came...
...embattled apostrophiles seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...