Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meetings will be open to all comers; however, frequent attenders will be asked to join the club," Secretary Margaret Drolette said yesterday, adding that payment of $3.00 annual dues entitles one to participate in the election of officers, to partake of the foaming ale, and to attend the meetings with a clear conscience...
Obviously all the authors are admirers of the late President. The estimates of Franklin Roosevelt by his friendly contemporaries (now under way) will be Phase II of his rendezvous with history. They will join a sizable bookshelf of Rooseveltiana, about 100 books and scores of pamphlets published up to his death in April 1945, ranging from Liberty League squeals to pious campaign biographies...
...gets off to a flying start by marrying his two Massachusetts heroes to lovely wenches-the snag being that each man would secretly have preferred the other's wife. So the thwarted, disgruntled husbands join the U.S. Navy (it is the first decade of the 19th Century). They spend most of the book and their own manhood outsmarting piratical Beys and Deys in Tripoli, fleeing over the Nubian desert disguised as Moors, tossing scoundrels to the Deep...
...cheek bids for them. One jokesmith wanted the lines for piping grapefruit juice from Texas to New York. Another thought tough Texas jackrabbits could be profitably run to eastern markets since "anything becomes a delicacy if it is moved far enough." Even harried WAA officials took time out to join in the fun. Their proposal: start carbonated water through the pipes in Texas, spike it with bourbon in Kentucky, route the piped highballs through the "ice mines of Pennsylvania, and so to the bars of Manhattan...
Those who did not join, they explained, were not given food or a place to sleep. Anyone who criticized the Russians in any way was promptly expelled. "We don't know what democracy is," said a dark, fragile girl student, "and the S.E.D. is forcing us into the same pattern the Nazis...