Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...
...repetition which made Jerry Colonna's "Who's Yehudi?" funny to U.S. audiences is a rough U.S. equivalent of ITMA's appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...U.S.O. to handle. "The Poor Man's Garbo," who had once been forbidden by New York University to lecture on farming, told Stars & Stripes that the U.S.O. not only wanted none of her wiggle-waggling for troops overseas, but declined her strictly subdued offer to wrap herself up in a Mother Hubbard and give poetry recitations...
...Simpson's U.S. Ninth (under the tactical direction of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery) threw one arm around the top. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday. A First Army commander found Colonel Sidney R. Hinds giving orders to his combat team of the Ninth. Said a nearby corporal: "That makes it formal...
...solemnly described a scene in a bakery. This time, the overdressed woman said: "I hope the war lasts a while longer so we can pay off our mortgage." Said a patriotic woman bystander to the clerk: "Forget the cake. Give me a lemon-meringue pie and don't wrap it." Then...