[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

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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