Word: canteeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canteen, which resembled any Army Post Exchange, with shelves of U.S. cigarets, candy, peanuts, toilet articles, hung an oil painting of a sentimental reunion in the Bavarian Alps, labeled in German, "The Homecoming...
Whether they work or not, all prisoners receive coupons worth 10? a day, to buy things at the canteen. In addition, 80? a day is paid to those who work at the post's sawmill or auto-maintenance shop, or in the vegetable garden, where they grow food for their own use. Out of their wages they have bought instruments for an orchestra; some of them are good musicians. Their favorite U.S. songs: Pistol Packin' Mamma, Mairzy Doats...
...each one in the boat we'd empty his pockets and search for identification. One was named Thomas. He had a canteen on his belt and a map in his pocket, both with that name on it. John Thomas. Wilson, H.W., had an identification tag around his neck. He also had a billfold with a picture of a girl, some foreign coins, a wrist watch, and a bottle opener...
...Neville Chamberlain's London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted munitions makers ever spawned by the folklore of America's peace-befuddled '30s. They...
...story of "Follow the Girls" is something about a stage-door, canteen and three Navy huddles and their attempt to get one of their number married to a girl who is engaged to an unpopular chief petty officer. There is also somewhat of a sub-plot concerning spies at the Navy Yard, a pure young girl and an ensign...