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Word: quirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week two of the most durable representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps cropped up again. They are the raucous, riotous, wenching duo, Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg, who first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quirt & Flagg Back | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...chatter: "How do I feel about the Army? Boy, it's gonna be my meat and gravy. I'm sure anticipatin' it with relish. All I want is to find some body I can cuss-you know . . . like them two guys in the movies did . . . Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dear Mom | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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