Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army. ..." And the Leg Work? "I get the impression from [you] that just because we Jesuits are going to be identified with the Reconstruction of the Social Order that the job is half finished. We are five thousand strong, aren...
...Furtive Way. In this furtive, costly traffic, Germany and Japan have a dead-pan trade agreement, calling for German delivery of machine tools, sample tanks and planes, blueprints and technicians; Japanese delivery of rubber, tin, tungsten, quinine, opium, edible oils. But the Japs, hard-pressed for shipping in their own orbit, are welshing; most blockade-running is done by Germans...
...sides with Charlie, Johnny Windhurst, Ev Schwarz, and Jack Hart. Of course, these records will not be released, although if it weren't for wartime conditions (including my own status) I'd be inclined to issue the four best sides privately. The most successful efforts were "Squeeze Me" and "Tin Roof Blues," both in medium tempo...
...writers named Milton Drake, Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman. Drake got the idea from the infant prattle of his daughter, Niela. Last month Jack Robbins decided to take a chance on it. By last week, with a sale of 350,000 sheet-music copies, it was already the biggest Tin Pan Alley freak hit since Yes, We Have No Bananas and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. Bandleader Al Trace, who had introduced the song at Broadway's Hotel Dixie, had made the first recording (for Hit Records). Said he: "People get so annoyed by the words, they...
...Bouncing Betty" and "Leaping Lena" are names for the Nazi S-mine. No bigger than a quart-size tin can, it is buried close to the surface. When it is tripped it leaps five feet into the air, then explodes in a spray of steel in all directions...