Word: gai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repellent? Yes? Then use Toujours Gai; it keeps the mosquitoes away. Remember, rub it in your delicate skin each evening as the sun goes down. Thank...
This is a typical "commercial" on the Mosquito Network, a South Pacific branch of the Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Army doctors hope that the plug for Toujours Gai will lead G.I.s to use' their insect repellent, which not only smells bad but is also considered sissified by many fighting...
...midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger turned tail and promptly got out of earshot. Some of the boys sang "Nassau Hall" as we put up our tents that night. Toujours gai. Toujours gai...
...ABROAD-Georges Sime-non-Harcourf, Brace ($2). In Holland, the imperturbable Inspector Maigret deals with a crime of passion: the popping off of philandering Popinga. Maigret makes his pick and hands the case to Detective Pijpekamp for the kill. Proceeding then to Belgium, Maigret solves a murder at the Gai-Moulin in Liege. Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke...
...days before Christmas, at 5:30 in the afternoon, Ambassador Grew's tall, easy-moving figure appeared at the gai-musho (Foreign Office). For an hour the Ambassador and Foreign Minister were closeted. Shortly after the interview ended, a happy communiqué was issued indicating "progress." Spokesman Summa summed up the talk with a confident double negative: "There will not be a non-treaty situation between Japan and the U. S." But it appeared that Japan would have to offer more than the Yangtze promise...