Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Always gives the boys a laugh...
...this might very well be the last laugh at Willow Run's expense; no longer may aviation experts be able to wisecrack: "Willit Run?" Eleven months after the first bomber was put together, Willow Run finally seemed to be really under...
...accompany the British Eighth Army let the home folks overhear the talk and work of the British Tommy. Sound trucks have gone with the fighting tanks, sometimes, by accident, preceded them. One BBCman (Denis Johnston, Irish playwright) found himself alone facing an enemy column. BBC listeners later got a laugh from his bewilderment: "I can't see. ... I can't tell. . . . Good God! They're the enemy! . . . Oh. It's all right. They've got their hands up. They're Italians...
That brief sequence is probably the easiest way to sum up the new book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
Helen Traubel discusses her operatic exploits with a great bellowing laugh, claims she works off as many pounds during a Wagnerian performance as a Yale quarterback in the Harvard game. "Dieting is all right for those little coloratura sopranos," says she, "but not for me. You've got to have plenty of stuffing to sing Wagner...