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...troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...
...Marshal; and Eugene D. Keith, Third Marshal, and other Class Officers, the Seniors will march around the quadrangle of the old Yard, passing the statue of John Harvard in front of University Hall on their way to the service. Following an old custom, the students in the procession will doff their academic caps in front of the statue of the College's first benefactor and namesake. Upon reaching the Church they will be ushered to the front pews, where they will sit as a body. Invited guests will fill the Church to its capacity...
...Annemasse, France, a French War Veterans Legionnaire protested when a Nazi official did not doff his hat to a passing Legion funeral. The Nazi kicked the Frenchman in the stomach. Two French men thereupon broke the Nazi...
...Service Act pulled a sizable portion of the eligible males into camp. Now a respectable draftee, who knew the colonel's daughter before he was tapped for the United States version of a Yale honorary society, can take her out in the evening. The catch is that he must doff the uniform of which he is supposed to be so proud and probably must meet the young lady doff the post. There are countless numbers of such little differentiatious between the castes, ranging from the exclusiveness of officers' clubs on posts to the segregation between stripes and commissions in town...
...Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...