Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's another school of thought among the lassies which figures that it's going to be a long war and a gal might as well catch herself a husband and start to produce the army of 1963. But my dear, one simply cannot marry a man making only twenty-one dollars a month. That's not even undic money. It's silly even to dance with them; no future in it. And yet all there is left, unless she knows a handsome ensign, is the 4F Club. Brrr. What a plight for the womanhood of America. Should they starve...
...gal familiar to Broadway for a generation, with her hard little face and her soft, flabby hips. Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine. Even so, it's not very pleasant...
...phrase for the kind of treatment Columbia has in store for its new star. Her salary, now $800 weekly, is due for a boost. She will also get star billing. At present she is scheduled to play opposite Charles Boyer in Tales of Manhattan, a lead in My Gal Sal, and the title role in My Sister Eileen. Then another musical with Fred Astaire...
...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...
Turn right back on the same old track And swing that gal behind you! Rope your cow and brand your calf, Swing your honey an hour and a half...