Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...
Cross word puzzles, short wave radio programs, games, notes entitled Strictly G.I., a cartoon strip "Sad Sack," and a column of letters (only opening for officer contributions) are by now popular features. Special editions on the Air Force and the Navy have been printed, and special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent...
Their show was a fast, 58-minute routine: Miss Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...
...shrewd Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly. (A more likely explanation was current in Chicago newspaper circles: that Tribune Managing Editor James L. Maloney had broken some confidential information from "Curly" Brooks.) Faherty had turned out to be a poor campaigner; there was nothing to do but give him the sack...
...Forge, N.Y., in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, a pretty, blonde, 18-year-old, 120-lb. girl hoists into her truck as many as 30 mail sacks a day, drives 108 miles through one of the East's heaviest snow belts, delivering mail over a route her father left for war work. When snow piles higher than the running boards of her truck, Mailwoman Ann Gibbs takes to her skis, sack on her back, to reach isolated camps...