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Like G.I. Joes, a few got in serious jams. A few overstayed leave. A few got fed up and went on mild benders. But for the most, behavior was average young female. They put wet towels in each other's beds, tied knots in pajama legs. They griped about red tape, uniforms that did not fit, hats not "as cute as the Marine women's." They might refer to an unpopular officer privately as "that bitch." To the surprise of most males, they got along together just as well...
Miss Gordon has written about Paula Wharton-a Dorothy-Parkerish writer who becomes an Army wife-with something like a Parker pen. While Paula's 39-year-old husband sweats for his commission, his sophisticated wife is exposed to wet-behind-the-ears Army youngsters and null-behind-the-skull colonels' wives. To help her husband, she drips sweetness; but she is saved from choking on treacle by such menaces in mufti as her husband's former boss and a Hollywood producer...
Collard was so enthusiastic that in 1918 he was called as a witness by the Government's Channel Tunnel Committee. They wet-blanketed the idea but did not daunt Collard...
...used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...
Highlight of the Faculty Club sofree will be the presentation of a plaque to the member of our class who turned on a Dillon Field House shower and got wet. Those are the only showers in the world under which you can stand in perfect safety with all your clothers...