Word: agelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas fans may well agree that by pouring old wine into his new cocktail shaker, Author Douglas has once again produced a palatable mixture of ageless theme and modern viewpoint with the expertness of one of the oldest hands in the business...
...goodly company had assembled at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. Winston Churchill's Clemmie was there, ageless and bright-eyed, looking and listening for her husband. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's Air Secretary, beamed at little Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Union's bearded Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the most popular foreigner in England. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, grim as always, and Air Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas had come to acknowledge a Soviet tribute to the R.A.F...
...Retailers begin to do their part of the job so that consumers can also cooperate in the hoarding drive." Though "somewhat handicapped by the self-imposed restriction against scare advertising," they still find subtle ways ("like promoting ageless fashions") to persuade their customers to buy now what they won't need for months. And: "It's simply grand the way the public is cooperating. It appears that almost anything made of wool just walks out of the store. Some stores are now doing more business in woolen lines in a week than they did in a month...
...face of Paris, so ageless and radiant in the years of freedom, is that of a gnarled and brooding old lady under the Nazis. The city was in no mood for a facelifting last week, but it had started to get one. The Germans were tearing down buildings in St. Germain des Pres, St. Gervais, Le Marais, the Palais Royal and the Halles (central markets). Except St. Germain, all these quarters belong to the old inner Paris, walled and fortified at the end of the 12th Century by Philippe Auguste, the powerful king who conquered Normandy and pushed his authority...
...ageless, grotesquely ugly face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...