Word: emu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What she calls her "fannies" follow her home with 500 letters a day and truckloads of presents: dolls, fresh eggs, lazy susans, antimacassars, samplers, crocheted towels, doilies, candy, cookies and an emu egg. More than anything else, the fannies send food. Mary Margaret used to finish almost all of it-eating the icing and leaving the cake, sucking the insides out of chocolates and leaving the shell. But for the past year she has watched her diet...
Last year theaters closed at seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...
...shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...