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Word: throttlebottomish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Sloppy Citizenship | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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