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...rifle's rusty And I don't know but what he's right, If he'd inspect my pick and shovel, He'd always find them shining bright.* > The Air Corps now has an official song: Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun; Here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At 'em boys, give 'er the gun! . . . With scouts before and bombers galore Nothing'll stop the Army Air Corps!* > The Infantry song is still: The Infantry, the Infantry with dirt behind their ears...
...General Tooey [Carl] Spaatz, of the Air Corps, recently back from London, goes around wearing some tweedy thing that he picked up over yonder, and the town is full of rank and importance and anyone less than a Major is practically an Okie. But they all go around pretending to be grocers, morticians. . . . The odd part of it is that . . . Army officers in mufti, as a rule, look as if they had just crossed the continent by day coach in a slow train and hadn't undressed for a week...
...waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, field-mice bawk talk. Ho! Are you not gone ahome? What Thorn Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughter-sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night...
...Victor Moore, if that's what you mean. Excuse me if I go ahead with my dressing," said this Federal Theatre Macbeth, pulling on a pair of Harvardesque flannels. "My high school public awaits me yonder, precious hussies. And I've got a date tonight...
That chapter closes when engineers blow up the levee to save New Orleans, and the convict, the woman and the baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...