Word: denly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even more popular character in modern fiction: Superman. He excels in doing the impossible, and he is impossible as a human being. Bailing out of a reconnaissance plane over German-held Africa, he chews up his U.S. credentials, rides a camel, eventually walks straight into Hitler's den. "Will you tell me where you have been for the past two years, Herr Budd?" barks the Fiihrer. Lanny offers so neat an explanation that Hitler, in return, offers him an autographed pass to tour the Reich as he will. Lanny makes his tour, then flies back home to report...
Cold, Wet Rain. In Berlin, a cold, wet wind whipped the stinging rain into red banners planted every 50 feet along Unter den Linden, in the Russian sector. A parade of workers shuffled drearily past while loudspeakers blared. Most of them had to parade whether they liked it or not. "I remember," said one oldtimer, "when we were liable to be fired if we participated. Today you're likely to be fired...
...declined after it was released from dining hall service in 1924. Since then the Great Hall hodgepodge of ornate tapestries, stained glass windows, portraits, and busts, has withdrawn into brooding silence broken only by an occasional dance or banquet. Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from the sedate heights of its 170 foot tower down to the base of its firm foundation when Sally Rand...
...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG (1,231 pp.)-Lesfer V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...editors can edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...