Word: eels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later the man who has been called the slipperiest eel in Germany was slipped out of the dying Reich. From Paris he was reportedly headed for internment...
...English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...differs from a live one by the loss of a soul. But, says Huxley, a dead body is not the same as a living body, the chemical conditions are different: "If you substitute oil for acid in the battery of your automobile, no current will pass." The electric eel can light a lamp; less visible, but none the less real are the currents which accompany all vital activity. In the same manner, "all the activities of the world stuff are accompanied by mental as well as material happenings...
...manner, and a vast store of kinetic energy. She has one eye on the potentialities of her younger daughter, Michelle-Bridgit, 9. Of her Gloria Swanson has said: "She'll be an actress, I know. Emotional and moody. She lies and steals and her mind works like an eel...