Word: thumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive an authorized R. C. T. emblem as a visible roadside high-sign, and a certified identification card bearing on the reverse a legal waiver releasing any motorist kind enough to offer a lift from liability in case of accident. Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend in Beloit and visit there weekends. That isn't the reason I thought of this plan...
...despair the League's Seán Lester penned a report saying that Nose-Thumber Greiser's Senate had refused even to answer questions by the High Commissioner as to what was supposed to be the constitutional basis for their arbitrary Nazi decrees. Unanswered Mr. Lester then took his wife and dog fishing...
...opposition newsorgan in Danzig was promptly suppressed by the Free City's exuberant Nazis for five months. Danzig officials said they would "ignore"' High Commissioner Lester, who was rumored about to resign. A correspondent who called on Nose-Thumber Greiser was told: "You should have seen the faces of the delegates to the League Council. Ja, you just should have seen their faces! . . . Our success in Geneva is having profound effect. We would welcome the appointment of a German as High Commissioner, since a German would understand the situation in Danzig-or even an American would...
...bull-necked German Air Minister and Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who makes Poland one of his Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than...
...great crowd followed Ernest Fossa, 14, champion Tom Thumber of Massachusetts. Fossa hurried his shots, took sixes on the last two holes...