Word: unwrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autograph on menus and dollar bills. There was a great deal of joking and ribbing. Eugene Donnelly, the battery wit, announced to the President: "Now Battery D is going to give you something about as worthless as a Republican County chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would use it every morning on his walks and pass it on to his daughter. He added: "Perhaps some...
...great good humor, the Republicans sat back to enjoy the row. Their own primary was not expected to unwrap any odds-on candidate. But any Democratic discord was sure to brighten their chances in the fall...
Most U.S. retail merchants would rather unwrap a beefsteak in a lion's cage than display nylons openly, let alone advertise them. The few who have tried have repented almost immediately-once in Chicago a horde of irritable females chased a proprietor out a fire escape when his supply of nylons was gone...