Word: cobbed
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...your vocabulary is strictly stock, and the teen-agers tell you it's off the cob, you may as well stop bumping your gums. But you, too, can get on the grooby side. A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute, publishers of Calling All Girls (and Parents' Magazine). Some excerpts...
Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after...
JULIAN RICE Cos Cob, Conn...
...battle of the Lampoon was won on a hot spring morning. Charge upon charge ascended the flimsy fire escape, repulsed and thrown back, attacking and winning, and then, at last, dispersed to the solitary gloom of their cob-webbed tile dungeon...
...field army in Iceland is headed by cob-nosed, soft-spoken Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division. His force, complete from infantry to ordnance units, is equipped with everything from Garand semi-automatic rifles to fighter planes, telephone poles to cement mixers. Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms. Each soldier also has a pair of skis and snowshoes...