Word: towheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefs (in Britain's twelve autonomous defense zones). They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'Groats the grey-green overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination the clearest track presented. Each towhead had a postcard to send home when it got where it was going. The scheme had worked...
When he was 11, Johnny started to caddy at the Omaha Field Club, contributed his earnings of 50? a day toward the support of the ten Goodman children after their mother died and their happy-go-lucky father wandered off to try his luck in Wyoming. A likable little towhead, Johnny soon found himself the pet of the club members, was encouraged to practice with their sticks on the back part of the links. The first time he played nine full holes of the club course he shot a 37, one over par. That was in the 1923 caddies...