Word: tagalogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine Corps Chevron at San Diego gathered and published a glossary of leatherneck slang heavily flavored with Chinese, Tagalog, pidgin English and plain Navy. Examples...
...survivors of the 9,000 American troops and 27,000 Filipinos fell into the hands of the Jap-all of them U.S. soldiers and U.S. losses. Alongside troops from the mainland, Tagalog and Moro and Igorot had fought just as bravely, died just as tight-lipped and with just as little fuss as their white comrades. It took that fighting and those deaths to make the U.S. know that the men from the Islands were their brothers and their equals...
...editorial comments from the U.S. Since Bing Crosby's request performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie Cantor; Friday, Rudy Vallee. There is also news in Tagalog, and a discussion in English, Freedom for the Philippines. The Philippines listen...
...Filipinos showed amazing loyalty. One soldier orderly, left behind in the evacuation of Manila, gathered his officer's laundry up, set off through the Japanese lines. He was stopped many times, he reported, and was interviewed by Japanese officers speaking both English and Tagalog. He finally turned up in the U.S. ranks on the peninsula...
...working with the still older and bigger American Bible Society, it sowed some 1,600,000 Bibles through eight midwestern States. Since Dr. McLaughlin took charge of it in 1927, the Society's sales have quadrupled. As a missionary in the Philippines, he helped translate the Bible into Tagalog. As a Bible distributor and cruise lecturer, he has been round the world six times. Two years ago he fell and broke his back. During the 13 months he was in a cast, he made 173 addresses. Dr. McLaughlin promotes the Bible by putting it in snappy covers, plugging slogans...