Word: wraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helping her put Snooks across, threw a party last week in honor of them and Snooks's seventh anniversary. Favorite situation cooked up for Snooks involved the purchase of an Easter bonnet. First she demands flowers for the hat, then fruit, eggs, vegetables. Remarks the clerk: "Shall I wrap it up?" Replies Snooks: "No, I'll eat it here...
...Worm of Lambton was fished out of the River Wear at the time of the Crusades by Sir John Lambton, angling godlessly on Sunday. Uncommonly ugly and uncommonly strong, the Worm escaped from the well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing...
...Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay up. Kimmochi Saionji, gentleman of Japan, broke several more windows in the place, paid for them all. Then he haughtily commanded the waiter to wrap up the pieces of glass in a package, took the package under his arm and stalked out, head high...
General Washington need not have worried. The handsome pay of the Revolution was mostly on paper. (His men at Valley Forge were lucky if they had paper to wrap their feet against the cold.) Nor did soldiers in the first U. S. peacetime Army fare much better $82 a month for the ranking officer, $4 for privates in 1785. When the British returned for the War of 1812, privates' pay rose to $8 a month (plus $124 bounty for enlisting). After peace came in 1815, the U. S. treated its Army as usual, cut the privates...
...happened) of getting married under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...