Word: vet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O., said the Journal, is a "wizard of public relations." The C.I.O. News's overseas edition, with nearly 100,000 circulation, gets in its aggressive propaganda licks (C.I.O. FIGHTS TO GET VET BACK IN JOB), but sees that the message is "spiced with really clever cartoons, not contentious but just funny." (Apparently, the Journal had half expected the News to class-angle its pinups to the textile shortage.) The Journal's only real criticism was that the C.I.O.'s servicemen's edition seemed to be shy of news about wildcat strikes...
...which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought me to the vet...
...there you have the type of rubber-jawed female who thinks she's going all-out for victory by slapping some unoffending stranger with the sneer: "Why aren't you in uniform?" when he's liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...
Drugged, married to a strip teaser, shot at and generally pushed around, Hope keeps half a step ahead of his pursuers. Cornered by a loony Civil War vet and his invisible partner, Cartwright, Hope gets the vet to shoot Cartwright, in a rather amusing sequence of events...
Mileage? "The vet gave her one quart of kerosene and she ran four miles, so I judge she would have gone 16 miles on the four quarts. I can't tell you her speed, as the vet hasn't yet caught up with...