Word: pardner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subtle as a punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped to her male partner: "Come on, pardner, let out. Why allow poor little me to pass you up all the time...
...from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...
...dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...
DEATH AND TAXES - David Dodge -Macmillan ($2). A huge tax refund on a dead beer-baron's estate motivates the murder of an income-tax expert. The expert's pardner, who likes liquor, ladies and a good scrap, helps California police clean up a tricky case. Hard-hitting and well-knit - the "find" of the month...