Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closely related individuals . . . shared the same dining room, the same bathroom. . . . You learned that to get along well with other members of your family you must have consideration for them. . . . You have the same obligations in the Army. . . . Several hundred may have to live together . . . eat in the same mess hall, use the same bathhouse or latrine, bunk together, work together and play together...
...example of British feeling that the U.S. is not doing its part in the present war, "The Democrat" a British paper, charges that President Wilson was largely responsible for getting us into this mess. "For money in the U. S. will do anything'" and is even supporting the aggressor, Japan, it says...
...When mess call blows, we stroll into the mess hall, sit down and eat like pigs. Talk about service-we are waited on by K. P.'s. Dishes of food are on the tables. We'd die if we had to wash our own mess kits. In fact we don't even have mess kits, all we have to do is eat. The plates, hotel china, are washed by cooks in the automatic dishwashers. . . . Honestly one cannot possibly exaggerate the utter comfort we have...
...What a mess of a mishmash this...
...company as a holding unit for allocation and transference of future trading profits. The new company will take on the old company's trading assets and properties securing the old Selfridge debentures. Job of the old company is ostensibly to untangle Selfridge's financial mess. Whiteley stockholders will get new Selfridge redemption stock in lieu of guaranteed dividends due them for the next three years...