Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical gag: A stripteaser, trying to wheedle the Army into letting her do her act, asks whether the boys aren't fighting for American womanhood. Assured that they are, she queries: "Well, then, why can't we show them what they're fighting...
...There aren't many frills or fancy hooper-doopers among the Indians' plays, and straight power stuff from a single wing has been their forte. Out at the end posts they can brag about two snappy ball handlers from the basketball court, Glenn Knox and Al Vandeweghe. Both are veterans, and both will probably start today despite talk of leg injuries...
...difficulties, Miss Albert claims that Navy men have lost interest. "Officers aren't as lonely as they're supposed to be, for many of them are already married, and the others are not shy." And the bashful, retiring one- or two-stripers have been guests of wealthy Bostonians at their seashore homes, thus further complicating the already involved date problem...
...commander in the Middle East (see above), General Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, once had a conversation with a literary friend. The author stared at the soldier, and said: "Tell me something I have always wanted to know, Alex. You're really very intelligent, aren...
Bagdad to Teheran. Back again in "the office" as the bomber flew northeast over the Persian mountains from Bagdad to Teheran, Churchill saw jagged peaks reaching up hungrily in the clear air. "Say, aren't we flying rather close?" he asked. Vanderkloot answered: "About a thousand feet." "Those peaks," said Churchill, "would look better from higher up." The bomber picked up another thousand feet...