Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorities have warned the public not to seek shelter in the subways, branding them as unsafe; but according to the official air raid regulations, "passengers in trains or stations should stay there." As the most puzzling paradox of all struck us the proclamation plastered over the windows of all public conveyances: WHEREVER YOU ARE-BE CALM-BE QUIET-DON'T SHOUT-F. H. LaGuardia...
Valuable exhibits in the museums of the University will not be evacuated at present, according to Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, who is in charge of the air raid precautions for the museums and libraries...
...their arms ran in and out of Peabody School. Men with bandages on their arms walked slowly up and down the street. When Vag glanced at them, they quickly turned their heads the other way and hurried past. Everybody looked so embarrassed Vag thought it must be a raid. Since it was such a respectable neighborhood, he decided it must be an air raid. And so it was. The Cambridge ARP was having "incidents...
...down in front of their neighbors' houses. And the women liked riding around in station wagons and looking very efficient and wearing slacks. They all looked like they would enjoy coming out to play "incidents" again sometime. Vag thought it would be fun to be an Air Raid Warden...
...wail of an air raid siren will echo from the Yard tomorrow for the second time, as the alarm on top of the Widener Library is given its first official test between noon and 1 o'clock...