Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much-dreaded labs are not so grim as advertised. Concentrators say that they make some of their best friends in Mallinckrodt. The secret of doing well in the labs is to allot time so that while one experiment is heating, another is underway. If the experiments aren't thought out carefully so that long gaps of time are utilized, labs can be fatal...
...however, I'm afraid anything particularly polished for your dancing pleasure is not to be expected from Frankie. His is a jump band--it possesses no "choirs" of brasses and saxes. It gets along on two of each and does nicely withal. Its pop tune arrangements, of which there aren't very many right now, are played with apathetic carelessness. A colored band of that kind just can't get excited about whether I want to walk with or without you, and working for that Glenn Miller gloss on the sweet numbers seems a waste of time to them...
...spare one to six hours a day on active participation in the war. We are in danger! Why aren't we asked to do, ordered...
Jasper is a little Negro boy who can't stay away from the forbidden land of his mammy's melon patch. Hearing of a country where melons are free, he goes there with his scarecrow informer. But the melons aren't free, after all, and after he eats one of them, the other melons run him straight back to his mammy. Moral: don't talk to scarecrows...
...said these things could be done was Franklin Roosevelt, at a press conference. Asked a newsman: Aren't the Navy & Air Force strong enough to deal with anything like that? Said the President: Certainly...