Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleet Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
Hold On to Your Hats (music & lyrics by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg, produced by Al Jolson & George Hale). Al Jolson has an anxiety complex. He is afraid that audiences will not like him. Last week he was reassured. After a nine-year stay in Hollywood, where his light was dimmed by the glare of kliegs on more popular faces, he returned to Broadway in a burst of triumph, was prodigally welcomed by a first-night crowd undismayed by an $8.80 top. The vehicle that brought Jolson back to the boards was a rowdy, expansive, old-fashioned musicomedy, with...
Elegantly costumed by Raoul Pene du Bois, Hold On to Your Hats has plenty of fine dancing, if few memorable tunes. Best of the lot: There's a Great Day Coming, Manana, The World Is In My Arms. To wind up his show, Jolson abandons Composer Lane's score, whips into Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers, many another ballad that he plugged in the '203. Kneeling, rolling his eyes, bleating the old speakeasy classics, Jolson manages by curtain time to draw a warm bath of Broadway nostalgia that would drown even Billy Rose...
Pattern. No matter what its mission beyond London, each plane flew up a lane roughly parallel to the Thames Estuary, roared over London to keep citizens awake or in cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...
...aqueducts. Then suddenly everything started at once-searchlights and all the anti-aircraft fire. It was unfortunate from our point of view, of course, that the enemy knew pretty well the direction from which we must attack. They had disposed their defenses so that they formed a sort of lane through which we had to pass. It seemed that they had strengthened these defenses a great deal since the first raids...