Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know but what...
...that 27 U.S. merchant ships would steam to the Red Sea with supplies for the British troops in Africa and the Near East, Senate noninterventionists loaded their blunderbusses. They hoped to wing the ship bill when it reached the Senate floor and tie an anti-convoy amendment to its tail. But Administration forces were certain they had the votes to carry the measure through as the President had ordered...
About five years ago Jack Oakie's gusty, ebullient capacity for drinking with the boys at local bars got him into trouble at the Paramount lot. Studio executives hit on a scheme for bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later...
Encirclement via Ether. An R.A.F. reconnaissance plane flying as far as Bengasi saw an interesting but sobering sight on Benina airfield, eleven miles from Bengasi: drawn up, wing to wing and nose to tail, were at least 100 Junkers transport planes. Each plane was big enough to carry 25 men. In Greece transports like these had been used to land field artillery and armored cars behind the British lines...
...took a lot of courage to stick to Whirlaway. Bred at Millionaire Wright's farm in the heart of the Blue Grass, he is a colt of whom Kentuckians might well be proud: a handsome golden chestnut with a tail that almost sweeps the ground. But Whirlaway has inherited a tendency to run out (veer away from the inside rail) at the turns. That trait cost him several important races last year (he was defeated nine times in 16 starts). But Whirlaway proved that he is a stretch-running fool...