Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
...competition was pretty stiff in those days) was capable of ejecting so huge or so sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family...
...relays, tiring the quarry until it can be overtaken. On the trail of jack rabbits, they surround a group, driving them in an ever-narrowing circle, just as men do. Hunting ducks, a coyote once drove the feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take refuge in a wagon or a moving flatcar...