Word: creaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lynched in Irwington, Georgia during the night by a white mob which took him from a sheriff's house, part of which served as a jail. The 28-year-old-Negro, Calif Hill, Jr., was found badly beaten with bullet holes in the heart and neck, lying by a creak...
...Sunday Afternoon (Warner) is an old story with its face lifted for the third time.* At this point, it wears a starchy mask, and its smiles creak painfully. It is an idyl of the Gay Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens...
...days when the fog lies still and heavy over the harbors, when the damp beads the dock lines and the only sound is the creak of fenders against pilings, New England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...
...what we all want these days ... a book in which we can lose ourselves . . ." If this is all everybody wants, his new novel provides a decent degree of immersion. The story of a wagon journey across Pennsylvania in 1764, Toward the Morning moves with all the jingle and creak and rich, contemplative leisure of a horse-drawn cavalcade in open country. The reader has all the time in the world to take in everything, and the author gives him everything...
Only two have thus far entered the unlimited lists, while a field of five, a including Hugh Smith, finalist in last year's contest, will take a creak a 165-pound honors...