[Ads-l] guts 'n' glory
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 3 18:29:09 UTC 2020
1942 _Arkansas Gazette_ (Little Rock) (Nov. 15) Social News 18:
With GUNS and GUTS and GLORY
It Will Make You Fighting Mad!
It's Raining STEELl...But They Take It!
WAKE ISLAND
Brian Donlevy
Robert Preston
1944 _Detroit Sunday Times_ (Feb. 6) II 6:
GUNG HO!
Means Guts and GLORY SWEATING SWEARING
FURY CRASHING CRUSHING VICTORY
Coming Soon
[A very loose translation of "gung ho."]
JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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