Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...honey sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl with the pasty smile, and releasing his hold on the counter leg, flew through the swinging door on a single bounce...
Three busy streets had to be crossed to the nearest mailbox. Bunny was not allowed to go alone, and Father and Mother Glatt were too busy. Bunny sulked. "I guess you'll have to take it up with the President," said hard-hearted Mr. Glatt, "if you want to mail your own letters." So as soon as she had time after the Christmas rush, Bunny sat down and wrote...
...with ghostly aid. He has never given a tip to Walter Winchell, never been photographed in a Manhattan nightclub or on the beach at Miami. His desk has an ash tray made of counterfeiters' copper plates, three more which used to be opium containers. And that is the nearest thing there is to a T-Man* museum...
...Bradly didn't faint. He was a man. . . . The cannibals charged again, but Butch dipped a stick of dynamite at them and that held them back for a while. There was only one more round of ammunition apiece, and it was a thousand miles of green hell to the nearest civilization. Derek muttered. 'They won't make mincemeat out of me while I'm still alive. Cheerio, men.' He walked into the other room and there was a single shot. The cannibals charged again, and then a barrage of shots came from the other end of the clearing. 'Hurray,' shouted...