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...huge hotel: used umbrellas, 750 pairs of doormen's gloves, 742 cuspidors, red ties for bellboys (and electric tie pressers), wheelchairs and cribs, the flags of all nations, an elephant tusk. And there was Lot #3835: the stuffed head of Lucky Boy II, 4-H champion steer of 1941, which a Wilmette woodworker snapped up for $25 (he also paid $12,250 for the 14 ornate chandeliers...
Slang-hardened American flyers have been fascinated by "pukka gen," which means honest-to-God authoritative information. "Duff gen" is a wrong steer...
Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only...
Pointing out that some of the assignments are too confidential to be commented upon, Shapley added that the nature of others are obvious when it is recalled that sailors steer by the stars and that the observatory has had to build and use many kinds of lenses and mirrors and practice various photographic techniques in the normal course of astronomical research...
Before they said their farewells, the 19th's men danced in the officers' mess with wives and girls, dined on "snaggletooth Texas steer whose rump is stamped 'Suzy-Q, approved,'" and toasted each other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly...