Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Vanguard, a monthly, ten page, mimeographed, oak-tag bound magazine, which made its first appearance this week, is the new venture of the John Reed Society, College Marxist discussion group...
...snorting burlesque known as U.S. professional wrestling has developed a new kind of hokum called Australian Tag. Introduced in the Midwest this winter by Chicago Promoter Fred Kohler-who heard about it from Wrestling Referee Sam Clapham, onetime light-heavyweight champion of Australia-tag wrestling is just the old burlesque doubled. Instead of two-man foolery, each comedian inside the ropes has a partner just outside. When the insider appears to need relief, he can get it by struggling over to the ropes and tagging his partner. According to the rules, only two men are permitted in a ring...
...private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...
This was a riot. Embarrassed by the unabashed vigor of his audience, Hope stammered, perspired, muffed his lines, ignored the microphone. He signaled the howling, squealing WAACS to take it easy. They were ruining his tag lines by laughing too soon. When he came back after the broadcast to tell them how wonderful they were, an auxiliary shrilled: "You're wonderful...
...Every combat battalion has at least two medical men who take their equipment-including X-ray machines-up to as close as 400 yards of the fighting. Medical department soldiers assigned to the unit go out in the field, apply emergency first aid, call stretcher bearers. Stretcher bearers tag the wounded, bring them to the unit's field station. There the doctors give necessary quick treatment. Their orders are to stick to their stations. If the line of battle gives, they may be killed or captured like any other soldier...