Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow will see the big Company 4 event of the week. Gene Speer, after his bachelor party of last Wednesday down at Jake Wirth's will become a benedict at the Harvard Memorial Chapel. All of course, are invited...
...Jake, Puss, Shorty. Sometimes exhausted mules slipped or fell from steep mountain paths. The muleskinners rescued them at the risk of their own necks. The 'skinners formally named their charges Jake, Puss, Shorty. They called them, "You bastard, you sonofabitch." They defended them passionately from any outside criticism...
...hero in this picture is Drive, "the best durned coon dog in southeast Missouri," who was rescued last week after having been trapped in a cave in Sugar Camp Hollow, deep in the Ozarks. The dog's owner, Jake Light (right, patting the dog) and some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home...
Plans are being made for a "big" beer-bust on Friday, June 28. Inasmuch as this follows our last final exam, it is expected that general approval will be given. The "new" Seniors will be guests. Chief guzzlers Ryan, Stecker, and Ringe, after testing their capacity at Jake Wirth's last Saturday, promise to give a good account of themselves...
Without maligning Jake Fitch, they were certain that his appointment indicated that the Navy was still sticking to sacred seniority. It looked as if the generally younger admirals who had been airmen from the start would have to wait their turns-at least so long as the battleship admirals hold the reins...