Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
Nanking lies quiet and hushed in the soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
...what they call a biutiparlor for a champu and a maniquiur. In a franker bid for a picop, some apply lipstic from a vaniti-queis right out in the street. Depending on how much of a bigchot she attracts, a lucky girl will eat jot dogs and aiscrim, go to the muvis, drink jai bols at a cocteil parti, or perhaps even go for a dip in the boy friend's suiminpul...
...Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
...York, Maestro Arturo Toscanini cheerfully put his wife aboard an airliner for Paris, announced that he would join her in Milan early next month. Would he fly, too? Said the maestro: "No, no, no! I will go on a boat...