Word: struttings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brot, Arbeit, Familie. The most uncooperative among the Germans (the Army hopefully believes) have been segregated in one camp in Oklahoma, where they try to strut past U.S. officers without saluting, rub the stenciled Ps and Ws off their clothes and get away generally with whatever they...
Crammed with dull chatter and paced for obsequies rather than nuptials, And Be My Love is as much sleeping powder as play. Best served by it is Walter Hampden who, by playing an actor, can strut and attitudinize with glorious impunity...
...Miami - and in the rest of the U.S. Since then, Cuba's national pastime has boomed at Miami's Biscayne Fronton, where attendance last week was almost double last season's and mutuel betting more than double. One night 3,478 fans watched the Latins strut their stuff and bet a record $66,335 on their favorite pelota-slingers...
...dead elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...
...such incidents were isolated and exceptional. The usual troubles are unremarkable. Some Negroes strut, like some white soldiers, and get into trouble with their own M.P.s. Some get drunk. Some get into fights with colored civilians over local girls. Some go A.W.O.L...