Word: xmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked across the Square--colored lights, and old rummies with tin pails asking for dimes and quarters, and all the stores leering out in the darkness, bright windows like dragons' jaws to eat money; money, money and that's Xmas. There's no such thing as Christmas. Into the Yard; lights here meant that guyes were going on studying or drinking or talking, whether it was Christmas or Mother...
...laughed now. You idiots, he said to the windows full of cheap neckties. You silly bastards, he said to the bookstalls and the camera shops. You couldn't hear tonight, could you? You never hear St. Luke, do you? You can have your Xmas. I'll settle for Christmas...
During that Xmas leave "Lulu" Baker showed the town of New York what could really happen to it when something from Minnesota blows in well equipped to go to work with red paint...
...feast-day in Beantown. Don Brown and his Hairy Army spent the holiday at the Brown manse in Hartford. The Winchester clique ran up to the mountains for their Christmas. Bill Cousins became one of the crowd as he gave Betty a sparkler that means more than just an Xmas gift. Congrats. Poo Poo Jaffa played Santa to his loyal troop of Boy Scouts...
...Dearest, I know now I can't be home for Xmas. You'll never understand just how it is over here and how little entertainment our boys have. . . . It's not a very easy job over here. It's God awful...