Word: waspishness
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...heart of Oslo's streamlined business section slipped four Paris trulls. Well-bribed German sentries let them pass. Members of the underground guided them on their four-night walk to Sweden. In Stockholm last week, over their first good meal in nearly a year, chunky, raucous Suzette and waspish, salty Marianne told the four girls' story...
...strong interests were, in the main, legacies from her husband, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator...
While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
...Cordell Hull, slightly stooped at 71, war has brought no athletic privation. He still plays a waspish game of croquet, still addresses his opponent's ball as Hitler or Mussolini before walloping...
...familiar America-Firstish faces were there in the Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...