Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walpole novel, this is one of those thrillers of the dirty-work-among-the-tea-cosies school -- "Angel Street" and "Ladies in Retirement" are others. Like them, it is concerned with the psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play generates suspense in an ever-heightening increase...
Service. In Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Mary Guadette learned the Government wanted an egg speedup, hung a sign in her chicken house reading: "Keep 'em frying!'' One hen's answer: an egg that measured 7 in. around the center, 8 in. the long way, and had three yolks...
...troops at the rail paid scant attention; they were in no mood for music and speeches. To welcoming Britons who had expected U.S. capers, a hoary sergeant major explained: "We're just getting mad. We'll wipe 'em...
...except the front-line areas, the worst nuisance and the most pregnant occasion for levity were intermittent bombings by the Jap. "Keep 'em falling" became the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan. Melville Jacoby. TIME correspondent on Corregidor, reported that the Jap was losing one out of every seven planes to fire from the ground...
...Grim-faced Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith announced he would quit the brokerage business. Ben Smith reportedly made up to $10,000,000 monthly in spectacular bear raids during 1929-30. Since then he has dabbled in everything from airplanes to pepper: Grumman Aircraft, several Mexican oil deals, Alaska-Juneau and Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, George Weston bakeries, the magazine Pathfinder, Eddie Dowling's girlie show Thumbs Up, the promotion of Dick Merrill's transatlantic flight...