noon
It was his big night . I believe he claims he got hugged or something . And he always ends up by rollin ' his eyes , suckin ' in his breath and declarin ' passionate : `` Some queen , yes-s-s ! '' But the one who had the floor when I strolls into the bond room just before the end of the noon hour is Skip Martin , who helped win the war by servin ' the last two months checkin ' supplies for the front at St. Nazaire . He was relatin ' an A. W. O. L. adventure in which a little French girl by the name of Mimi figured prominent , when Budge Haley , who was a corporal in the Twenty-seventh and got all the way to Coblenz , crashed in heartless . `` Cheap stuff , them base port fluffs , '' says Budge . `` Always beggin ' you for chocolate or nickin ' you for francs some way .