Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land. A new energy stirs. In the shadowy silence of St. Paul's Cathedral the Watch Night congregation will bend more fervently. At Piccadilly, amid the hooters and factory sirens that will mingle with all the city's bells, young men and girls will surge around Eros, wildly yelling, singing, dancing. Less riotously, nearly 8,000,000 Londoners (provided they have been lucky enough to secure a bottle) will drink a family toast around their firesides. A few, hailing from England's northern counties, will keep their old annual customs...
...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
...company. For Mother Marsh things will change even less. She still lives in the same white frame house in New Philadelphia. On Christmas Eve this year, she will do what she has always done for her grown-up brood: make them a batch of fudge, serve it around the tree, then lead a chorus of Silent Night before sending them...
Pretending to be awed by the crowd of longhairs around him, Petrillo clapped Sarnoff on the back and cried, "We are the proletariat." Everyone was in high spirits; both the record companies and Petrillo were, happy that they had found a way around the law, so that Petrillo could once again fatten his union's welfare fund with record royalties (TIME...
...emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...