Yanked out of action after Guadalcanal to go on a lengthy war-bond promotion tour at home, he buries his frustration in a grim pursuit of female flesh. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2010)
Above all, there are the drawings of a girl who, from an early age, dreamed of becoming a commercial artist and, some two decades later, in World War II newspaper ads offering portraits in return for war-bond purchases, would be identified as "New York's Girl Caricaturist." ❋ Unknown (2009)
He captures events and places with indelible care, whether he's describing a war-bond rally, a jewelry-store heist or what it's like to endure a Russian winter. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We drove 35 miles per hour to save gas, bought serial stamps for our war-bond books, managed ration books, knitted socks and scarves, saved lard and planted victory gardens. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s made punch-line-dependent comics like Bob Hope seem as dated as war-bond drives and Dorothy Lamour jokes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Rusty Wagner is coming here for the war-bond drive." ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nevertheless, while the mayor tried to calm the crowd and get on with the war-bond auction, Milt was the first person the sheriff and I questioned. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Wagner's death had completely overshadowed the war-bond auction, and it was a couple of days later before I saw Vera Lens and remembered to ask her about it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Tuesday was sunny and mild, a perfect spring day to greet the crowd that had turned out for the war-bond rally. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Towns like Northmont ordinarily would not have attracted a war-bond rally on any large scale, but as it turned out we had a local celebrity hardly anyone knew about. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We're putting together an antique auction for the war-bond rally and someone donated the ornate oak front door from the Black Cloister. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was also a time for war-bond rallies in the cities, when celebrities sometimes came to help raise money for the war effort. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Practicing for a defense-bond show Saturday and getting ready for a war-bond drive,” I repeated. ❋ Kaminsky, Stuart (1996)
If he dropped it and rushed off to the war -- well there was no lack of men, men who had no particular standing, men who could not subscribe to war charities, to Dominion war-bond issues. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
In 1942, actress Carole Lombard, 33, her mother and about 20 other people died when their plane crashed near Las Vegas, Nev., while returning from a war-bond promotion tour. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Following a luncheon and some time to relax, she was driven to the Mary Baldwin College campus for her 8 p.m. war-bond pitch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With Virginia providing vocals, Bob directed an eight-piece band at USO-sponsored war-bond shows.
