Word: chink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill is one, Beaverbrook...
Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...
...heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work on the door catch. Four hours later he staggered out exhausted...
...Permitted quotas for Germany (27,370), Poland (6,524), Czecho-Slovakia (2,874), Hungary (869), Lithuania (386), Yugoslavia (845), Albania (100), were filled to the last refugee chink...