Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was Emily Dickinson, hidden away in a big house at Amherst where few people ever saw her. She used to send her friends cryptic little notes, often only a single line: "Do you look out tonight?"; "Mrs. S. gets bigger and rolls down the lane to church like a reverend marble"; "Not what the stars have done, but what they are to do, is what detains the sky." She seldom addressed the notes herself. Usually the names and addresses were clipped out of a newspaper and pasted on the envelopes...
Mornings and afternoons the missionaries met at the Sacred Grove, where towheaded Joe Smith had his first vision in 1820. Between sessions they could stroll down the lane to a low. white frame farmhouse. Like ten thousand other farm houses in the U. S. it had a sign TOURISTS. Its distinction is that there for $1 a tourist may sleep in the very bedroom where, according to the sober belief of 750.000 respectable people, an angel of God first appeared to a divinely chosen prophet...
...bridge of her fiddle. Piqued at her assignments on her return to Warners from her success as Melanie in Gone With the Wind, Miss de Havilland flounced out of the studio. Brought flouncing back by suspension (the big stick with which the Warner Brothers have subdued Bette Davis, Priscilla Lane, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan), spunky Miss de Havilland kept the Brothers and her fellow players guessing about her grudging promise not to elope with James Stewart during the six weeks filming...
...Dunkirk, where nearly 1,000 Allied ships formed a floating lane across the Channel, 335,000 Allied troops...
...first official gathering of the Club after its foundation was at a dinner given at Delmonico's in February, 1866. 145 Harvard men in and immediately about New York "including Brooklyn," were asked to attend the affair, generally referred to as the "Lane Dinner," which was a decided success...