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...magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
...tags come, we'll be required to wear two. "One to stay with the body, and one to send to Washington," what, no six copies to S & A, BuPers, and the SERVICE NEWS? and while we're on the subject of the NEWS, they may soon try to soak us for this rag (affectionate term), something around a quarter a month, maybe less. We don't think it's worth it, but then we're prejudiced...
...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...
...three years the weather had been bountiful: mild winters kind to the wheat, gentle springs for the fruit trees, heavy rains to soak the land in midsummer, long autumns to get the harvest in. Now farmers, with a prayer on their lips, scanned the skies to see what 1943 had in store...
...Byrnes, OPA, et al. have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If not, they will insist upon "a flat cents-per-hour raise to the base rates of pay . . . to reflect the cost-of-living increase that will have taken place from May 15, 1942 to Aug. 15, 1943 . . . paid in money...