Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a mascot for the 43rd, a New England National Guard division, and he also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
...speech there were questions from the floor. One little boy from Twickenham confessed that he had come only because he thought that the union was going to give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything they wanted...