Word: shruggings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner "Thank God for the A. F. S.' . . . There never was a force in the history of service that had a more terrible baptism of fire...
Pope's Shadow. New Dealers were inclined last week to shrug away these straws. They pointed out that unlike Al Smith, Franklin Roosevelt is no Roman Catholic. But, although fiery crosses crackling on lonely hilltops, and red-faced spellbinders warning that the Pope was on his way to the White House played their part in the 1928 election, other things helped to defeat Smith: many a Southern voter turned thumbs down on liquor, on Tammany, on Manhattan's East Side, on New York City domination in general. The States that went for Hoover in 1928 were...
...everybody expected she would some day, Russia demanded Bessarabia from Rumania last week. And as everybody expected he would, King Carol II gave in. That much of what went on in the Balkans last week was accepted with a shrug by sophisticates in Realpolitik. Everything else was surprising...
They would say with a shrug of their shoulders: "Well, Britain and France brought it on themselves. That Treaty of Versailles. . . ." For the first time in many years, that argument is no longer being made. . . . They are saying that if Germany can't beat France and England without raping those little nations, she ought to have the grace to take her licking...
...week's end many a citizen was ready to shrug off the whole business. Then slippery Father Coughlin popped up again in the Christian Front news, blandly disavowed his earlier disavowal. Said he (in a Sunday sermon) : "While I do not belong to any unit of the Christian Front, nevertheless, I do not disassociate myself from that movement. I reaffirm every word which I have said in advocating its formation; I reencourage the Christians of America to carry on in this crisis for the preservation of Christianity and Americanism. . . . We will visit these prisoners with our prayers. ... If they...