Ruth, the Moabitish maiden

I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.

I would rather cook forever my lone corn dodger, wash my own solitary paper collar, sew on my own pasteboard horn buttons, and do my own darning and other diminutive profanity, than dream of such a fraud on womankind or unkind, now, henceforth and for ninety days or so, world without end, amen, a-women!

In more sophisticated versions, the German people are understood to have been taken in by Hitler’s charisma not least because the remilitarization he initiated — not to mention the Wehrmacht’s early battlefield successes — was a balm to wounded national pride.