Word: darned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure that I speak for thousands of American girls when I say that the English women are welcome to Private Stevens and any other Americans who have that same attitude. Let them darn his socks, wash his clothes and share their limited rations with him-we'll put our energy into trying to help those boys over there who feel that our country and the American girls are worth fighting for and coming home...
...startling thing I find about English girls though is their helpful and cooperative nature. Gladly will they darn your socks, wash your clothes, share their limited food rations with you, . . . listen to your bragging about central heating and then apologize for what five years of war have done to what appears to me a beautiful little island after the flat dry desolation of Texas and the stinking swamps of Louisiana...
...indeed, the girls back home should worry, or else learn to ... darn socks or something else besides play bridge and sip cocktails all afternoon. The English say we spoil our women. After seeing and going out with a number of both I'm convinced we certainly do. My advice to any bewildered bachelor back home: send to England for a wife. The initial investment may be large but she will save you two thousand bucks a year in upkeep...
...Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man; Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away, Out in Far Rockaway? and Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Go, Still You Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Stay? I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (Can Broadway Do Without...
...title role--that of a Balkan Man of Mystery whom everyone (except the audience) suspects of Nazi sympathies--and makes the most of his shadow-lurking appearances. His support, which includes spies, Gestape agents, saboteurs and the like--all a congenial crew--is adequate and, at times, pretty darn good...