Word: yapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yap hank, "A great show by a great bunch. There's no theatrical manager who wouldn't grab it without the uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...
...their Congressmen they write: "You won't kill a Jap with your yap." The people want to be smartly and strongly...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
...Sooner or later America will be at war with Japan. And the moment she is the same people will start the same yap...
...Sorry. Which people? Which yap...