Word: pollywogs
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...kind of jape that Harry Truman thoroughly enjoys and he joined in with zest. Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.* Margaret wore a shoe-length slicker and sou'wester, which made her look like a Morton Salt boy. She was told to mount watch for Davy Jones, who traditionally appears the day before crossing...
...sundown, Davy Jones boarded the ship through a hawse pipe. Grinning, Harry Truman found himself indicted as "a vile landlubber and a pollywog . . . .in that, knowing full well that there are no party politics in this absolute monarchy, you are guilty of practicing the same, this crime being further aggravated by your being a Democrat...
...attack on Corregidor came literally out of the blue. One half of the 503rd Parachute Regiment boarded its planes on Mindoro Island. As their transports sailed over the ½-sq.-mi. head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...
...former pollywog members of the President's party have all survived [their Equator-crossing initiation], but while they are recuperating, this dispatch is being sent not by Mr. [Secretary Steve] Early but by the Senior Shellback himself...
Meanwhile, Franklin I continued aboard the Houston down the west coast of Mexico, battling yellow-tails, striped pargo, bluejacks, broomtailed groupers, losing a big shark. At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks." Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President. Chief shellback: Franklin Roosevelt...