Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little people, many of them signed only "A Friend." In a London pub he had visited in 1941, his photograph was draped with crepe; one of the "regulars" drank a toast to him: "We're sorry he's gone. He was a proper gent-very easy to mix with...
Rations. Jungle-fighting Japs can carry a 15-day supply of rice, which they mix with fish, bamboo shoots, water ferns, etc., but U.S. soldiers must tote monotonous K rations-and a 15-day supply would weigh 38½ pounds. Hence rations often have to be dropped in the jungle from planes, with the consequent danger that the enemy may spot the locations and gauge the strength of U.S. columns...
...headliner of the week was Jeff Hilleran's frantic effort to take off gobs of Don Juan's special mix. Was his face red after ten minutes' work out with a towel. Angle Barsanti was on his trail half the night to warm him but Jeff did an Evangeline on him in the Touraine and eluded Angle by inches...
Dick Armstrong, who has been doing deserving work teaching his pals to sing in formation, has an all time record for date mix-ups. Dick had five dates for one evening. Only the maneuvering of the old master, Ken Mills, was able to extract him in one piece. We don't think he issued rationing cards but however he managed it, he known something which any good midshipman could use in Boston or Hampton these days...
...Music and baseball don't mix ordinarily but music and women mix." Thus Promoter Eddie Stumpf, after one of the strangest doubleheaders in baseball history. At Milwaukee's Borchert Field, General Manager Stumpf's Milwaukee Chicks had met their Minneapolis rivals in the All-American Girls Professional Ball League after a one-hour prelude of classical music (Grieg's Heart Wounds, Ravel's Pavane pour tine Infante etc. etc.) by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra...