Word: batman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deer were not quite alone in the strange world of ships, railroads and medical inspection. Someone watched over them. Attending to their simple diet and deerish comfort was one Jenferksen, General Dahl's Lappish batman (see cut). He would stay with them until, after 28 days of quarantine, the deer were exposed to the stares of Zoo-goers-a token of Norway's gratitude for Britain...
...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification...
...Partisans could never figure out Major Randolph Churchill-his fits, bravado and geniality. They generally defined him as "the incredible Englishman." Randolph was constantly hunting up his batman. "Salmon! Where is Salmon? Salmon, I say, you must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed...
Only when he departed for new duty in the Middle East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
...wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness, and feminine screams also serve to enliven the evening. The central character is the sinister, putty-faced Count Dracula, an evil combination of Superman and Batman...