Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three big camps are now permanent prisons where Communist agitators, homosexuals, disgraced Nazis, Jewish university professors, Protestant conscientious objectors are thrown together in common cells. They wear coarse, striped uniforms, their heads are cropped, they shave only once weekly. The Jews wear yellow badges and the homosexuals pink, and few steps are taken to prevent Jewish adolescents from being attacked or molested...
...decline to sell time to the radio priest; sat in a Manhattan courtroom where a Jew was arraigned for interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic...
...enough these words had fundamental relation to U. S. foreign policy. For the long-legged lady was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and the swatches were materials for dresses, presented by the wool-raisers of Britain and the U. S., which Mrs. Roosevelt and Britain's Queen Elizabeth will wear if they meet as scheduled in the U. S. in June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty...
...fledgling society will not fall in line with the Greenwich Village tradition if it lives up to a resolution passed at a recent meeting which forbids all members "to wear berets, drink absinthe, or fight duels with other members...
...Favorite Balkan legend: Rumanian officers wear corsets, use cosmetics...