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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless someone forgets the old Army axiom. "Keep Your Mouth Shut, etc., and Never Volunteer," the midshipman-officers school will not be represented in the SERVICE NEWS after this issue. This writer has apparently devoted a little more time to his scoopin' than he should have. In witness whereof, see Exhibit One, Disbursing Grades of 8, slant 2, slant 43. There must be someone else who can spare a few hours a week unscuttling things for our growing ensemble...

Author: By M.j. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...mouth organ moved swiftly up & down his lips, while his scraggly mustache perked up and bristled. Through the strains of his music the radio abruptly squealed. The regimental headquarters wanted to know if the Colonel had any news. Pete shouted this to the Colonel, who had reappeared. "It's all screwed up," said the Colonel. "I don't know what's going on. Tell 'em to send the Air Corps." Turning to me, he said: "This sure is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Taking of White House Hill | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Abdominal Mouth. One day when Tom was nine years old his father brought home some hot chowder in a beer bucket. Thinking it was beer, Tom took a swig, burned his esophagus so badly that the doctors could not keep it open as it healed. So for 47 years Tom has fed himself through an opening surgeons made in his abdominal wall. He chews his food, then spits it into a funnel attached to a rubber tube which runs through the opening to his stomach. A sensitive, self-respecting little man, with a peppery Irish temper, Tom has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Marriageable Molars. In Graham, N.C., Dentist Will Long peered into a young man's mouth, noted "fully developed wisdom teeth, perfect set of molars," therefore judged him over 21. The young man was therefore able to get a marriage license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like an alcoholic hangover, they are said to be "down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Weed | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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