Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked if there were many Zeros around. 'Some,' he said. I found out later he'd had one on his tail all during the bombing of the Ryuzyo. He banked to the right around the Ryuzyo's bow-pulled out safely in a mess of gunfire. He was so cool about pulling out way lower than his running mates that their noses are out of joint until the next action, when they vow they will show...
...consul gave him encouragement but no hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...days in succession the Japs sent over bombing planes. On one of the first raids Marine Corps pilots led by Lieut. Robert McLeod, onetime Dartmouth All-America halfback, knocked down eight of nine planes. Lieut. J. H. King of Boston got a twin-engined job "tagging along on the tail of the formation like a fat and happy goose...
...socially conscious minstrel show in which Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters find $50,000 in the tail coat, and with the help of Jack Benny's Rochester divide it with the Hall Johnson Choir and other Hollywood sharecroppers...