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...Manhattan. Said Ordnance: General Dwight D. Eisenhower had just cabled, asking for immediate delivery of 45,000 lb. of a special water-repellent compound never before made in the U.S. Eisenhower had just heard of the new compound from the British, who had used it with great success. The goo was sketchily described. By Monday enough machinery had been thrown together to fill the order; materials had been rushed by police-escorted Army trucks to Standard's Baltimore grease plant...
...same date we hope the faculty will have prepared a reasonable statement of policy with regard to final judgements to be made before June 1. so, for goo'ness sake, stop worring...
...month and a half old, the "Clinic" is thriving, evidence that intimate goo about other people's troubles is a salable product in war as in peace...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...
When a Sweet Swing devotee tries to struggle out of the ooze and goo that is Lombardo, and investigate this thing called jazz, he is generally licked from the start. He is seized upon by friends steeped in jazz lore and subjected to Gutbucket Gus and his Dixieland Breakdowners. Appalled by the seemingly mad confusion of growl trumpets and crisscrossing trombones, he yields himself again to the blandishments of the Kysers and the Kayes, who, if cloying, are at least comprehensible...