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...Washington Post, its tongue in cheek, continued its forlorn-hope battle to keep the American tongue in check. Ignoring, for the moment, its favorite enemies (the chairborne Washington officials who "activate" plans and "implement directives") the Post asked itself last week: what is World War II doing to the language? Partially reassured by the fact that many of World War I's mess-hall words (chow, slum, goldfish, corned willie) disappeared under the influence of home cooking, the Post tried to hope for the best: "Probably G.I. will be with...
With consciously maddening meekness, the Taoiseach* (Eire's Prime Minister) turned his other cheek. To Winston Churchill's blistering attack on his World War II neutrality (TIME, May 21), Eamon de Valera replied: "I have deliberately decided that ... I will not be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...
...great and influential liberal newspaper, respected the world over as "the Manchester Guardian of Germany." In 1934 the Zeitung was briefly suppressed for printing Franz von Papen's one & only anti-Nazi bleat (attacking the "fanatical" wing of the Party). After that the Zeitung kept its tongue in cheek. Skillfully buried in its dreary business columns were more facts about Hitler's Germany than were reported anywhere else; its editorials condemned anti-Nazi incidents as a means of reporting them, and slyly quoted with approval early Hitler speeches to show how he had strayed from them...
...after a native, a Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt; and it is called, for short, Suhloam. The oddest thing of all, though, is that the show is quite a lot of fun. Most of the color and costuming is garishly pretty; the dialogue is richly flavored with such tongue-in-cheek lines as one man's description of the heroine: "She was always a great artist-but above all-a woman." Miss de Carlo, a newcomer to the screen, is not exactly persuasive as the great artist, but as a woman, especially in her Salome number, she brings the house...
...Operating Engineers, was like blowing peas at an elephant. Sometimes he simply turned his beefy back. Some times, enraged or full of whiskey, he used his fists. Once he slugged the A.F. of L.'s David Dubinsky; another time he kicked in a minor labor leader's cheek bone. But neither taunts, rivals nor the law really bothered Joe Fay much...