Word: tarantaras
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...armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
...referrin' to George V: "His Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous-someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.-like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat...
...forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police in "The Birates" who found the wisest thing, tarantara, tarantara! was to slap their chests and sing, tarantara...
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