Word: thumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
...week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum up its educational program. And he banged out a reply to Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who lately pronounced Manhattan museums "stuffy" and unattractive to the young...
Like Hearst, Rothermere collected objects of art and stored them away. Like Hearst he was a patriotic tub-thumper, a violent Red-baiter. He lived like a maharaja, traveled with an entourage of editors, friends, servants, women. He was lavish with money, but was never the resourceful editor Northcliffe had been...