Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiepura, star of the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow, as a patriotic whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
Rarity. In Fort Worth, the only item reported missing after a three-day Army showing of several million dollars' worth of equipment was a pair of rayon WAC panties, with real elastic...
Pokryshkin, eloquent only when he talks flying, drinks little, eats and sleeps much. Superstitious, he will not be photographed before a flight. Six months ago he married a Red WAC at the front. On furloughs Pokryshkin goes to Moscow for a round of theaters and tourist sights (he has been seen gawking at the Moscow subway's new, resplendent stations). After the war he wants to be a plane designer...
...streets of Washington, they search desperately for a base of operations from which MacMurray can sally forth to negotiate for an important government priority. The only way they can get lodgings is by masquerading as a butler and cook. They settle in the house of Roland Young and his WAC-officer wife and proceed to turn it into a veritable castle of bedlam. The subsequent scenes are exceedingly funny and, combined with a fast start, label this as a picture to be seen if possible...
First Lieut. Jere Knight, from Pleasant Valley, Pa., widow of British-born Author Major Eric Knight and considered the handsomest WAC in London, averaged at least two dinner invitations an evening...