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Then: "When I asked for a raise that wasn't granted, I painted my own shingle and opened my own office [at Swastika, Ont.]. My desk was a store box." She made $50,000 and learned to cuss and drink as well as any sourdough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: Up from Indiana | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Southern Governors milled all week in the lobbies of Washington's Mayflower and Statler Hotels. One Governor emerged from the smog of cigar smoke and politicking long enough to sum up: "We go into meetings to cuss him-but we just can't figure out any other answer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ageless New Deal | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...this may be true in many cases, but the brass hats are trying in their muddling way to find the right way. During every campaign there are observers snooping around trying to find out what is wrong-what works-and why. They talk" with privates, corporals and sergeants, who cuss about this & that, but quite often come up with a suggestion which even a brass hat can see is right." Thousands of soldiers in Major General Charles H. Corlett's command, arriving in the Aleutians for the occupation of Kiska, blinked with amazement at getting such apparently meek & modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Advice to Warriors | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Terry, mostly on horseback. One of her memories is of Terry Allen as a little boy, legs akimbo on a horse, riding off to maneuvers with his father and his father's men. One of Terry Allen's memories is of himself learning to ride, smoke, chew, cuss and fight at the earliest possible age. According to his biographer, The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling, Terry once found a playmate crying. The playmate explained that his mother had just spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: A Matter of Days | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...aisles rocked with laughter and groaned with glee at the tasty (well performed) radio skit "Sopus Syrup"--remember Sopus Soothing Syrup the next time you buy. One of the "faculty" was so well received that the was called back again for a few scattered cuss words--correction, remarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER HELD BY NTS GROUP AT PUDDING | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

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