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Word: waggon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing and Mr. Nasty | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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