Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this story were to have a moral, then I would say: 'Just name a hero and I'll prove he's a bum...
...this long, rambling autobiography, one of World War II's authentic heroes does his best to prove that he was also a bum. Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington's saga begins in the summer of 1941, when he was a Marine officer and a flying instructor on the naval air base at Pensacola. He was, as usual, restless. "I was forever going somewhere but never getting anywhere. For the most part I was always leaving some geographical location just prior to my being asked to leave." Marine Corps Headquarters was getting tiresome about the growing difference between his debts...
...skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
...Navy seems to be displaying the same narrow-mindedness today as did their 1926 predecessors when Billy Mitchell received the bum's rush. To hear the Navy talk, you'd think they invented the airplane...
...twenty songs on the disc are about equally divided between the comic and the sentimental, with two tentative rock and roll numbers. The Dunces make swirling noises for the sentimental songs, and go bum-bum for the comic. Some of each group were written by Dunces, but this doesn't make much difference...