Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drifts were deeper. Even on snowshoes, it was an arduous climb. But the three provost officers (military policemen) found what they wanted-a cabin, well up on Mt. McKay, overlooking Lake Superior, some 16 miles southwest of Fort William, Ont. The cabin, screened by a stand of pine and spruce, was obviously new, built of rough-hewn logs. Sergeant Ronald "Slim" Harrison approached cautiously, threw open the door...
Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...
...cheer. Hundreds of fighting ships would have Christmas trees, flown west from Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nimitz would be visited by a Seabee Santa Claus. Soldiers slogging up Highway 65, near the Fifth Army's Italian front, would see a huge Merry Christmas sign, and a fog-shrouded Apennine pine decorated with 400 colored lights. G.I.s would have Christmas parties for children in France, England, Italy, Iceland, the Philippines; and each father could seek out children the same age as his own, and play at being home again...
...toiled at forced labor under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics, the "crook girls" inevitably followed the troops, to ply their trade in slatternly shacks...
...often wonder if it's the weekly shipment of goodies that brings Brune Tiz and the of quoted Count de Wright down to Joe Neil's room. Then, of course, it might be the presence of Fred Trummer. By the way, Pine Island, Minnesota, bears the brunt of Freddie's ten day leaves...