Word: musters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acts were varied and pleasing. After a "gay" muster, the program got under way with several numbers (loudly applauded) by the Company Baker Quartet. Mr. McMann presented the first "Serious Reading" and incidentally one which proved to be both enlightening and entertained. It is most distressing but word is out that the British (Blank, Blank) System has been comprised...
...hear that call right now, ringing out at this very moment at Columbia and Northwestern, we'll bet. And you can see them running blinker drill, and ordnance drill while we muster for statistics lab and industrial management. They're looking forward to commissioning day at Columbia and to mid-semester exams at Northwestern (and here we sing "Four More Months to Go" (grunt, grunt)...and for most of us that's only forgetting the fact that we should be singing "Twelve More Months...
...what course we are going to take....I am now with that very select group of men who go to the Study Hall every night...we get a lot of things done there....I washed out seven pairs of socks and a dozen of handkerchiefs just before they took muster of those present the other night...I'm thinking of taking up knitting next week while they send us Code at 12 words per minute because I'm there for not taking three words per...it is a little confusing, I know, but that's us all over...
Strike up the band, mates ... we have added to the roster, muster, or what have you ... one Guilfoyle, one Cahill, and one Clyde Fuller. 1-34 is proud to have you with us ... you possess the necessary requisite of a sense of humor without which one is person non grata ... (what the heck does that mean anyhow?) ... Combination question and suggestion ... isn't there something we could offer to do to help out over to Chelsea, such as reading aloud to some of the lads of a Sunday or something similar? After all they're Navy men and shipmates...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...