Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They called his Negro valet. Big Arthur Prettyman, veteran of 20 years in the Navy, was accustomed to helping the crippled President around. With the help of "Joe," a Filipino mess boy, he lifted the unconscious man in his arms and carried him into the bedroom...
...Nick Comfort, Dean of Oklahoma School of Religion: "Many [religious leaders] are waiting for Jesus to come and put an end to the whole damned mess. When that happens they expect to be on the job to sing the doxology...
Fifty-odd Washington newsmen belabored the Secretary with 33 written questions, all adding up to the bitter brevity: "What the hell?" Mr. Stettinius sweated, lost his famous smile. His unspoken hope was that the San Francisco Conference would quickly consign the deal to some limbo where the mess could be conveniently forgotten...
Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...
...Fence Me In. For recreation the prisoners play soccer, make mess-hall and barracks decorations out of tin cans and other scrap, watch censored movies, organize orchestras and put on plays. Costumes are improvised from anything that comes to hand; no material for such goings-on is supplied by the Army. No recreational equipment is supplied by the Army, either. It is bought for them with profits from their PXs or they must rely on Red Cross packages...