Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Louis Rothschild Lefkoff, a mis fit officer, was a reflection on his superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...issued clubs to the prison guards, ordered them to beat up a recalcitrant prisoner. When the guards refused, he called in MPs. The nine ringleaders of the prison gang (six white men, three Negroes) were taken into a tar-papered room. While the major stood outside, armed with a pistol and a submachine gun, the MPs flogged the prisoners' bare back sides with weighted rubber hoses. One man had to be taken to the hospital. By night fall, the story was all over camp - and Major Lefkoff's military career had ended...
...danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night...
Never Mind the Weather. Neither snow nor mud stop the dogs or their admirers. On sticky Saturdays tracks are coated with tar. Crowds of 15,000-all that wartime laws allow-relax in covered stands. Races take only half a minute over the 525-yd. track, with all six dogs sometimes finishing within i/io of a second...
...Ameche," as one of our brighter wits referred to the telephone this morning. The other day, the Army office received the following letter. It is quoted herewith for two reasons: 1) To illustrate a state of mind prevalent among the female population of this vicinity. (I can see the tar and feathers now!) 2) To state the request for those officers who might be interested...