Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life in London nowadays is not calculated to settle the nerves. If you go into St. James Park to feed the ducks on the lake, you will see holes in the ground-bomb shelters. If you plan to remodel your Victorian house in Chelsea, you must make provision for a steel cellar-bomb shelter. If you go for a spin in your little Vickers monoplane, you must watch for preposterous balloons dangling wires-defense against bombers. If you have a disproportionately long nose, you must be specially fitted for a gas mask...
Died. Dr. Otto Krause, 55, onetime Austrian cavalry officer, husband of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann; of tuberculosis; at Saranac Lake...
Blond, 39, Balkan-bearded, poker-faced, enthusiastic. Whit Burnett is a hypochondriac ex-newspaperman, formerly of Salt Lake City, Vienna and Majorca, now solidly repatriated and a leading godsend to U. S. short story writers whose stuff he publishes when all others refuse. He is also one of the few people who seem to be as fascinated by writers' doings as some are by the orbits of movie stars...
...last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest; farming and sailing are his hobbies...
This evening at 7 o'clock at the Skating Club, the team meets Cambridge Latin. If then faces a stiff schedule, including Andover and Exeter, both of whom were at Lake Placid during the Christmas holidays. Dewey, realizing that most of the teams he plays are well ahead in experience, intends to concentrate on a hard-checking, defensive type of hockey...