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...parade before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade...
Pursuit Grey. For years fashion dictators switched colors for fashion-enslaved U.S. women at least twice a year. Now WPB has frozen stocks of ten basic vat dyes necessary for Army and Navy uniforms. Gone will be the frozen colors, all the brilliant shades, clear white. Black is also unfeatured on the ground that it is depressingly unpatriotic for all but widows...
Sometimes the men in the Nazi uniforms stopped civilians on the street and asked "Der o'glock, vat ist?" The civilians told them the time of day, but it did not seem as if they really knew...
...landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
Best of them is The Betrothed, in which a farm girl, nudged subtly toward it by animals, the comments of her kin, the gruesome half-incantations of her grandmother over a vat of hogs' entrails, is curdled against marriage. Good too is Holy Morning, in which, in an almost magically beautiful atmosphere, two sisters prepare for Christmas...