... all went smoothly. When asked if he could put the parachutists down on that spot, an R.A.F. officer had said, “It’s a piece of cake”; and so it ...

... the expressive phrases in their vocabulary:— Umbrella man: Parachutist. Umbrella; Canopy of a parachute. Piece of duff: Easy. Piece of cake: Easy. Slap happy; Reckless. Dim as a N.A.A.F.I. candle: Slow thinker. Jankers: Collecting and ...

... performed by the men the Royal Navy. No rosy picture was painted, no story of an easy, adventurous and care-free life. Adventure there Is, of course, with occasional pieces of cake —as Lleut.-Commander Neal put it—but on the whole life In the Royal Navy Is ...