Word: outa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
Moppets & Money. One day in December 1943, French looked out the P-I window, saw a long line of kids trying to get into a department store across the street to see Santa Claus. Says French: "I walked outa the joint and across the street. I looked at those kids' faces and saw how happy they were as they told Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside...
...United States Senate. I ain't got the high-toned eddication for the job to tell the truth. You all know me I'm jess a small town salesman with a smatterin' of law. All I know's how to keep my hands outa the other feller's pockets...
...only a five-minute teaser-enough for "a song and a bit of a story." Last week, typically, the song was The Biggest Aspidistra in the World and the story about cockney Bill who was blown out of a window by a bomb, came to, remarked "Crikey! I got outa there just in time." For this token program Gracie receives a handsome $2,500 a week (from Pall Mall cigarets...
...talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...