Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next time you attend a dance, notice what has happened to the stage line. It's gone. That's what's happened. And in its place, lathes and blow torches left behind, are lined the female counter-part of the pre-war wolf. Pretty? Oh, yes! - Good dancer? By all means! Intelligent? Foxy's the word, son. God conversationalist? She can tell you all about additional allowances...
When the soldiers at Camp Barkeley, Tex. saw a clinch interrupted in the movie Forest Rangers, they yelled "As you were!" Hedy Lamarr's sinuous maneuvers against Richard Carlson in White Cargo brought forth wolf howls in low register. When Charles Boyer laid hands on Rita Hayworth in Tales of Manhattan, only to unhand her and start over again, one impatient soldier yelled, "For crying out loud! Stop wasting our time!" The U.S. fighting forces take active pleasure in the motion picture...
Arthur William Murphy, Jr., (Economics), Robert Grant Neiley (History), Howard Tredennick Oedel (History), Benjamin Owain Rees (Philosophy), Harold Arthur Rosenblum, Gerard Philip Sheehan (Sociology), Edmund Grigor Sullivan, Jr. (History), Robert Henry Troescher (History), John Martin Ward (Classics), Philip Lewis Williams (Economics), James Milton Wolf (Economics...
Julian William Mack, 2d (History), Charles Wolf, Jr. (Economics...
Initial U-boat successes fell off when the British woke up to the fact that the submarine was still a grave menace, and escorted their convoys more heavily. But after the fall of France, when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast of Europe, the wolf-pack system raised hob with Allied shipping. Of some 57,600,000 total deadweight tons of British shipping, U-boats sank at least 17,600,000 tons in three and a half years. Working in the Nazis' favor was the vast demand on Allied shipping for the supply of many...