Word: dad
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...Happy Boyhood. As any reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places...
...feeble old character on ITMA answers any question with the line: "I'll have to ask me Dad," which is now a stock retort of anyone evading a question...
...comes upon a group of kids chasing a Jewish boy named Danny, because, as Danny says: "I got a different religion." Sinatra, taking charge, convinces Tommy, one of the tormentors, that the blood plasma Danny's father gave may have saved the life of Tommy's G.I. dad. Explains Sinatra: "Don't you get what I'm telling you? Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came from...
...White House-the President's health being what it is. Besides giving his No. 1 patient a daily once-over, the Colonel hopes to continue surgery at Walter Reed (so long as he stays in the Army) and teach in his spare time. Said he: "I asked Dad if this was a political appointment, because I like to stay away from that sort of thing, and Dad said:'No, it certainly...
...letter arrived about midmorning. By noon, thanks to motherly Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, 60, who minded the village switchboard in the parlor of her white frame house, everyone in Geetingsville, Ind. (pop. 27) knew what the letter said: "Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain told me to write and tell you that I am charged with murder and have been sentenced to be shot. Get an attorney and try to have this sentence reduced." It was signed...