Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...variation of a few hundredths of 1% in the glucose of the blood may make the difference between cowardice and courage, may determine whether a man shall be shot as a slacker or medaled as a hero...
...players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...
Sirs: To me it has not been evident that one should view with alarm TIME's selection of cuts for its magazine or its news items. And yet when I glanced over TIME, June 27, and found the cut of Slacker Bergdoll on p. 8 and an item concerning him in the same columns as mention such courageous men as Byrd, Lindbergh, Chamberlin and others under the division of National News it would seem that some of the criticisms of TIME have been justified. This is a direct affront to our "Heroes of the Air." The mention of this...
...Didn't you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three hops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop. ¶"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for refusing to fight in the World...
Bernard lacks the stolidity of a true Quesnay. Yet he cannot break away from the mill because he reasons that it is a slacker to society who enjoys the privileges of his class without bearing the class responsibilities...