Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, Mr. Smith is the fellow in the brown suit. Middle-sized and homely, he has pale blue-grey eyes behind rimless glasses, and a mustache which (though he boasts "I haven't had a clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When...
...mess call was sounded and upper was served, cafeteria style. After upper a real old-fashioned song-fest in the parlor of Briggs House with new and old hits was featured. At 2045 the men stroke out with that real old-timer "Good fight Ladies" and proceeded to go home...
...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
Errol Flynn collapsed at work, was put in a Hollywood hospital for at least a week. "A recurrence of an upper respiratory ailment." Joel Kupperman, radio's little mastermind, turned seven and spotty, called off his birthday party. Measles...
...British Foreign Office and the American State Department intend to bolster up their quasi-Fascist or out-and-out Fascist regimes when the Nazi-Fascist, military machine has collapsed, or do they intend to help democratic groups get the upper hand as for as possible...