Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heard Shellenberger, Yermak, Young, and Zaleznik spent their usual Saturday night a la Hotel Avery. What's this about the girl that smokes cigarettes and chews gum at the same time...
...Santa Claus suit, stuffed 220 packages of cigarets into a pillowcase. Then, chewing his store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
Boots and Massage. In contrast to U.S forces, the British have no trench-foot problem, even though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...
Loud talker Gum beater...
...they found Sir Eric. He was dead, "crouched as though he had been watching someone." A .30-caliber bullet from a U.S. Army carbine had pierced his left cheek, entered his body. Fifty yards away British police and U.S. Army MPs found ten empty cartridges, two wads of chewing gum. The rest was easy: the investigation moved to a U.S. Army airdrome near...