Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason for this unusual break into print was that the Tribune had been bug-eyed for weeks over a private and patently ridiculous bogey: education of U.S. youths in foreign countries. No one was much surprised that the Anglophobiac Tribune saw the greatest menace of all in U.S. students at the great English universities...
Peace Business. It is peacetime prospects that really excite George Gallowhur. In a healthy, antiseptic postwar world he sees mankind free of sunburn (Skol), free of bug bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic; walls in breweries and bakeries painted with pigments that combat yeast- mold; swimming pools and yachts protected from algae (a small boat, painted with patches of plain and Puratized paint, "grew a beard" in the plain sections, was "cleanshaven" where Puratized...
...Steeg, of Sources of Supply "distinction" fame, is ill at Fort Banks station hospital with a "strep" infection. Here's to you, Al--get well soon and give the bug a "distinctive" beating...
...just one simoleon everyone may dance the fever bug right off of his brow. It may be your last chance to dance to a civilized orchestra, your next will probably have a major drum section. Place that dollar in the hands of the nearest Morale officer and plan to attend the Senior dance July 24th. Those who attended the last one will tell you that dancing plays a minor role in the evening...
PLEASE ADVISE BY SLOW FREIGHT DOES HARTFORD, CONN. HAVE A BUG WORKS WHERE NUTS HAVE WRITING PRIVILEGES. IF SO, A. H. PATTERSON SHOULD HAVE HIS PENCIL TAKEN AWAY...