Word: roto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lately Chile's rural roto (ragged one) has been hearing talk of farm unions that might get him more pesos. "What can we lose?" he says...
...been the War Department's policy to keep only one Regular Army officer with each ROTO unit, it is expected that Lieut. Booth will be transferred to a field unit soon...
Revisions were handled by Editor-in-Chief Irene Watson, an 18-year-old graduate of Brooklyn's Bay Ridge High School, who received $13.60 a week for her services, and realized no more clearly than the authors that she was helping run a roto-lactor. Some 40 other high-school kids, delighted to be in the publishing game at similar wages, sent out Mr. Flumiani's oleaginous form letters. The "season paragraph" told the author that the time (any old time) was ripe to bursting for his book to appear. The "fighting paragraph" bucked...
...opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks like any four-months-old Jane. Without a care or worry the Ickes settled down to vacation...