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Monday, January 5, 1942

... else in the world. VOIU have done your first parachute jump. The rest of your pals have wide grins on their faces. - A piece of cake, they say. Money for old rope. An hour later you're in the balloon again, going up for the second time. You look around ...

Published: Monday 05 January 1942
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1100 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

YOUR UNITY COUPON

... very thing I've been pressing home in all my recent lectures to bc-medallists and Dow- Jones Theorists. The neo boys are pieces of cake, as our airmen say. but the conua* puiualists have far more austerity and a belter defence in depth. It is useless tackling ...

Published: Sunday 22 March 1942
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 804 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SLAVES and OTHERS in WESTERN EUROPEAN FACTORIES

... yes but R.A.F. crews who are coming again and often will, while enjoying their well-deserved piece of cake, be the first to appreciate the bitter daily cake of so many of those they have to bomb. But get away from these factories, exhorts Colonel Britton ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1914 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Children’s Corner

... promptly pop The rider into gaol. JOKES They come from a book. Eileen Pope Tramp: Have you a piece of cake lady, to give a poor man Who’s hungry? Lady; Cake? Isn’t bread good enough for you? Tramp: Ordinarily, yes, ma’am, but this is my birthday. Customer: ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1942
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1307 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

R.A.F. SLANGUAGE

... strongest. Pilots who go dicing or on a shaky-do are attacking a difficult and dangerous target; if it's au easy target it's a piece of cake. After thee• drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker, meaning to hang around to have ...