Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ward cars filled with . . . excited exclamations at sight of lighted street lamps along the highways. . . . Attendants came in with supper trays for the litter cases and the warm ward car filled with the odor of roast chicken and hot potatoes. A soldier grinned happily: 'Real American chicken...
John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large a litter...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
...Munda trail. While they were holding a bridge against a frontal attack their three Browning automatics became overheated, could no longer be used. Later, in the presence of his commanding officer, Lieut. Kliebert told correspondents what happened next: "The Japs who got through to one of our litter cases propped the man against a tree and five Japs took turns bayoneting him. I got three of them. . . . We saw Japs pull blankets off litter cases and line them up. ... They cut one of the poor lads from the top of his head to his feet, meanwhile laughing deliriously. Then they...
...them down wherever they fell. He had none of the cautious grace of men long blind, but struck out with his legs as if angry at the path. A mule skinner came up the path riding a mule and singing a song about Georgia. One of the litter bearers said: "Here you, what you doing on that mule? Get off and let one of these fellows ride who need it." So the skinner got off and we lifted the blind soldier on to the mule's bare back. After that my job was to balance the blind...