Word: chumly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHUM - John Masefield - Moc-millan...
...merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same as me." And the old hand passed...
...Used to It." New Chum Masefield had no time to marvel. His first day swept by in a hurricane of piercing whistles, pipes and clanging bells. He labored away on some engine (he was assured it was a pump) until his arms hung like strings; he hauled on a rope as thick as his ankle-hauled so well that until his head hit the deck some yards away he didn't know that his 80 mates were hauling in the opposite direction...
Biographer Adams, who is an old chum of Woollcott's and a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College as well as a practiced journalist and storyteller (Revelry; The Gorgeous Hussy; It Happened One Night), deals both gently and sharply with a personality who, outside politics and crooning, may quite possibly have stirred up more love and loathing than any U.S. contemporary...
...official G.I. guide to Germany tells U.S. doughboys how to deal with skeptical Germans. When a German says: "It is all a lie, all democratic propaganda," the G.I.'s officially approved answer is: "Okay, chum, you'll find out soon enough...