Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...over the country, loudspeaker vans boomed out a monotonous tattoo: "Tak, tak, tak!" (Yes, yes, yes!) It was Communism's voice urging the Polish people to vote yes on all three questions of the national referendum and thus to uphold Poland's Communist-dominated regime...
Many of the first arrivals carried the tattoo brands of Nazi concentration camps or the less visible, equally indelible marks of the sole survivor. Most had the cautious and disbelieving air of those who have learned that no journey has a safe or happy...
...traditional demand last spring, the U.S. Government had grown more lumps and bumps than a tree toad-1,141 bureaus employing nearly 3,000,000 people. Despite these admitted tumors, and the fact that the new President didn't seem like the sort of surgeon who would tattoo the patient after operating, just for laughs, Congress spent seven months in alarmed concern...
...There are (or were) U.S.-style dance bands. In unbombed neighborhoods, the conquerors will see familiar trade names (sometimes slightly confused in pirating and copying, as "Interwomen" for Interwoven Socks). And, just as North America has its Indians, Japan has its aboriginal Ainus, a lightskinned, hairy people whose women tattoo blue mustaches on their lips...