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Strike up the band, mates ... we have added to the roster, muster, or what have you ... one Guilfoyle, one Cahill, and one Clyde Fuller. 1-34 is proud to have you with us ... you possess the necessary requisite of a sense of humor without which one is person non grata ... (what the heck does that mean anyhow?) ... Combination question and suggestion ... isn't there something we could offer to do to help out over to Chelsea, such as reading aloud to some of the lads of a Sunday or something similar? After all they're Navy men and shipmates...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
...Make no mistake," said Waite, "they will not fail to use gas when their need is great enough." He added, however, that America is ready for such attack and already has sufficient anti-gas equipment to stave off any but the most ferocious gas offenses which the Axis could muster...
...Lodge agreed to lay it aside, added, with sardonic significance: "The undersigned Senators declare that, if they had the opportunity, they would have voted for the resolution." The undersigned names added up to 37; it was the first clear warning to Woodrow Wilson that his pet treaty could not muster a two-thirds majority. Angrily Woodrow Wilson sailed off to Europe; in the resulting clash between a dogmatic President and the "Irreconcilables," the treaty and the League were lost...
...decades of a false peace and the impact of global war had changed at least some sections of Senate thinking. The resolution's sponsors, who had sweated over the draft of their document for several weeks and buttonholed many a Senator for his ideas on it, hoped to muster a two-thirds majority...