Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid parliamentary palaver on a proposed tobacco-tax increase, waspish Lady Nancy Astor, M. P., who abominates smoking & drinking, called smoking "almost a national crime." Said a fellow member: "Is this not rather strange talk coming from a daughter of Virginia?" Retorted Lady Astor: "I remember the Bishop of Virginia telling me 30 years ago he would sooner see his daughter drunk than smoking a cigarette...
...clever, waspish, Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is also Nazi district leader for Greater Berlin, was attributed the latest outburst. Cafés, cinema houses were searched for Jews. Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were...
...Condemning the "panicky speculators'' who "know that Wall Street is bounded on the east by Long Island but forget that it is bounded on the west by the U. S.," the retiring SEChairman ended by asserting that market "cushion" is provided by odd-lot trading. To these waspish remarks President Gay made answer in words that settled nothing: "With all deference to Mr. Landis, for whom I have the highest respect, I see no reason to change my views...
Unmarried No. 1 Nazi Hitler and childless No. 2 Nazi Göring, both tireless in exhorting the German people to breed children, were again set an example last week by the No. 3 Nazi, waspish little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. When she married Dr. Goebbels in December 1931, Mrs. Magda Quandt already had a son. In the ensuing five years Dr. & Mrs. Goebbels have had a son and three daughters, the latest last week. While his wife was in labor with his fourth child, Der Angrip, personal newsorgan of Reichspropagandaminister Goebbels, came out last week with a powerful series...
...Malley and his men had many a brush with the police, the Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time...