Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowadays, your conscience is immaterial--your time just comes. So you might as well resign yourself to being crowded into tarp-covered trucks and troop trains, and to forgetting those pet green and yellow ties and oxford shoes...
...squadron was a ' quiet one. It flew with a steady hand and did not stunt. It did its job and then talked about something else. It groused a bit for the good of its health, but on the whole it was brave, cooperative, steady, unboastful. Its pet swearword, which it picked up from Al Frank, was "Oh, Krause!" Its pet salute was what Red Wages described as a Jap salute: both hands, fingers spread...
Malarkey's malodorous patter is pounded out by swarthy Herbert Little Jr., onetime health-journal editor, author of NBC's soapy The O'Neills, who sired Malarkey with Griggs last spring in a pet over the sameness of radio's patriotic messages. The Office of War Information decided last fortnight that Malarkey was sufficiently obnoxious to deserve a wider audience. He will soon be drawn as a cartoon character, under OWI auspices...
Raised in comfortable country-house surroundings, young Stafford was the pet of the family. His religious mother insisted that her children be "unsectarian Christians . . . taking their religious inspiration directly from the spirit of the New Testament." Stafford absorbed her teachings, but quickly developed "a disconcerting habit of giving unsought, and often unwelcome, advice to elder members of the family." Result: his elder brothers dubbed him "Dad," and "the trait which earned the name has been a characteristic of his political life...
...longest role in the play belongs, not to one of the three, but to snub-nosed English Ingénue Musgrove. * Actress Anderson's pet story concerns the shy Garbo's inspecting Miss Anderson's California home with a view to renting it. Garbo inquired how often the gardener came, was told "every day." Said Garbo, exiting: "Too often...