Word: searchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Search. In New Haven, Conn., young Vito Manga, chased by police to the roof of a nurses' dormitory, explained how he had happened to be lurking on the fire escapes outside the building: he "was looking for a men's room...
...thing was obviously missing from Sehwarz, and that was Santa Claus. The search led on to Filene's, where one was found seated on a throne, doling out green lollypops to frightened little children, some of whom had to be dragged up to him bodily. Santa had a new assistant this year, a young lady who called herself Miss Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that...
...saddened because many people in England had misinterpreted the role of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, currently being played in London by his wife, Vivien Leigh. The character is not a prostitute, Sir Laurence explained patiently. "After the initial tragedy that affected her life, in her subsequent misguided search for beauty and romance, she came to lead an immoral life; but there was no intention to suggest that it was in any way professional...
...FICTION The war, the uneasy peace and the many-directioned search for personal and world repose accounted for most of the year's best-read books. No war books achieved the popularity of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe or Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. From Winston Churchill came Their Finest Hour, the stately, grandly stated second volume of his World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic...
Among the more bizarre requests which have been received in recent weeks was one from Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors were in search of a student who would submit to a series of tests after being kept awake for 48 straight hours. The obliging guinea pig pocketed $20 for his sleepless nights. Another freshman allowed his intestinal tract to be explored by means of a series of tubes through his nose and down his throat...