Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...
Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...Navy is a strange animal, as many members of the Supply Corps junior class are finding out at the present ime. A few months ago the majority of the juniors were college kids. This stage was quickly followed by transition to the level of a hound (chow, liberty and/or sack variety). Now they're all, willing or no, supply beavers, gnawing away at the Manual. But the climax came early this week when Lt. Comdr. Ambrose received the literal bird during his weekly lecture to the junior class in Potter Auditorium. The bird in this case, the class ornithologist claims...
...misnomer. We should be company Dog. Our predecessors, now in Company Dog, in rare Naval style "gummed up the works" for us . . . too much entertainment at smokers too little study, failure to learn to read the face of a clock or even to interpret bells, too much sack duty. At any rate the powers that be took a look at present company D and reconsidered the schedule. Close upon our arrival at N.T.S. and still in the rain came scuttlebutt to the effect that the course would no longer be five months in length, but only four. Classes would...
Then came couriers with shattering news: Syracusae had fallen to the Romans, and in the sack a maddened legionary had run his sword through Archimedes, greatest of mathematicians,* as he did geometry in the sand...