Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midtown skyscrapers like a Brewster barouche in a traffic jam of taxis. Said a high-nosed Morgan Library attendant: "I suppose it's a very good idea, at a time when human beings are acting so savagely, to show records of the behavior of animals." From its richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons...
...when John Wanamaker moved there in 1896, Rio shoppers in 1929 rarely saw price tags; they were accustomed to haggling. Jim called his company Lojas Americanas be cause loja means shop in Portuguese. He opened it on June 1, 1929. Opening-hour gawkers timidly approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening, a seven-year-old girl broke the ice, bought a 2 milreis doll. The cash register has been banging...
...F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today as sabotage...
...bright moonlight night. Enough German planes were feinting at London to keep the night-flying defenders there preoccupied. Meantime wave after wave of heavy-laden bombers passed around and northwest to Coventry. All night they kept at it until they had dropped over 500 tons of high explosive, 30 tons of incendiaries on the old city where Lady Godiva once rode naked to protest against high taxes. Coventry, "Britain's Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories...
Without an instant's hesitation, out of the line of defenseless freighters and straight for the death-laden steel-clad swerved the 14,164-ton armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, a hardy old packet of the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line which used to take freight and poor emigrants from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face...