Squareheads like Bruno Richard Hauptmann rarely turn the corner ... "
Charles Lindbergh
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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turn a corner
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turn a corner
To begin to find success or improvement after a particularly difficult or troubling period.
I know that rehab has been hard on you, but I feel like you've been really turning a corner lately.
Their new start-up took a couple of years to get going, but they finally turned a corner when their product was featured in a high-profile tech magazine.
See also: corner, turn
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turn the corner
turn the corner, to
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squarehead
Squarehead is a late 19th century ethnic slur directed at German and Scandinavian immigrants. The phrase is meant quite literally as a disparaging reference to the cranial features, though often just used as a generic ethnic slur against those groups.
Basically the stereotypical shape of a Northern European's head was thought to be square- so it was (and is) an insult to call someone with that ethnic makeup squarehead.
Kid: "Mommy, did you see how weird that Norwegian's head looked?"
Mother: "Yes dear, the fucking Squareheads do have unusually shaped skulls. The Swedish have even more box-like heads... don't even get me started on the Danes or Germans..."
by LickMySwedishMeatBalls April 24, 2010
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Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as "The Crime of the Century". Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence to his death, when he was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Anna later sued the State of New Jersey, various former police officers, the Hearst newspapers that had published pre-trial articles insisting on Hauptmann's guilt, and former prosecutor David T. Wilentz.