Word: sixteener
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...moppets also contribute hundreds of little rhymes that fit Editor Botkin's definition of folklore: "The stuff that travels and the stuff that sticks." Samples : Eight and eight are sixteen, Stick your nose in kerosene, Wipe it off with ice cream...
...Sixteen with Mumps
...summer, 70% of wives sleep in nightgowns, 24% in pajamas (10% more switch to pajamas in winter), 1% in shorts, 5% nude. Sixteen other women said they would like to sleep nude...
...delinquency thus: "I don't blame the men in service at all these young girls are up town to get picked up they get picked up alright that is their fault. . . . I can't understand what is the matter with some of the parents some of these sixteen year old girls up town and out in the country all night. Maybe I am a little punchy and old fashioned but the old time parents they would knock your ears off if you wasn...
...Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...