Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fibber McGee and Veronica Lake, anonymous Vassarettes and old Harvard grads--all of them managed to get mixed up in the stream of unsuccessful attempts to get that beer. But the most surprising thing about yesterday afternoon's many phone calls was the female preponderance...
...Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...
...thin line of communication across Lake Ladoga the city almost certainly would have fallen. In the summer tugs, fishing boats and other vessels ran the gantlet of German bombers to bring food, munitions and raw materials to the city, to take wounded, women & children and war products out. One of the Soviet Union's biggest aluminum plants functioned continually during the siege. In the winter communications were maintained by road and rail across Lake Ladoga...
...skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile little tricks of sabotage, dangerously overambitious misjudgments of what a still bottom will bear. They have to pension Gus off two years before his time, and all he is good for is sitting down by the lake...
Later on, in a benefit show for the Navy, Zorina dances in the snow to one of the best songs of the season. "That Old Black Magic." Hope gets caught in a shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however...