Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously. We'll long remember the ten-to-eleven hour in the living, room the manufactured senttlebutt-always better than the real thing--the coming home after dates...
...fooling either. By the time this goes to press some of us will know where the powers-that-be have seen fit to distribute our various talents. We will have cancelled plane reservations, or made new ones; some will be stocking up on bathing suits (that lucky gal who gets Miami!) while others will be scanning railroad maps carefully with an eye towards finding out how many hundreds of miles from a city of 100,000 their particular little haven is located. Yes, the WAVES are off to sea--or a reasonably exact facsimile thereof...
...will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously. We'll long remember the ten-to-eleven hour in the living, room the manufactured senttlebutt-always better than the real thing--the coming home after dates...
Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Virginia Fields, this pie boasts a plot that is serewy with a left hand thread. Goddard is a stranded gal who works in a shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot...
...twenty-five cantos which the publishers. Random House, are extending to the masses for a mere deuce ($2), bringing the price per canto to about eight cents. Why, some of the titles alone are worth eight cents: "P-s-s-t, Partner, Your Peristalsis Is Showing," "Creepy Time Gal." "Adorable Taxable You." "Reat Mc. Post-Impressionist Daddy," "To Sleep, Perchance to Steam;" and many others, too humorous to mention...