Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pocket sundial. Named after the inventor, thin, blond ex-Scientist Dr. Rudolf Rueter, the Rueter Watch consists of a Plexiglas-covered metal disc with turned-up edges and a magnetized dial which automatically faces north. A brass needle in the dial's center casts its time-telling shadow on two rows of figures (one for summer, one for winter) with half-hour accuracy. Berliners were gladly paying 25 marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale, cost up to $1,000 on the black market. It was clearly stamped a postwar product by its tinny materials...
...Sergeant Richard Harding Davis* liked Stoke-on-Trent, for all its soot. Out of all the millions of G.I.s (who, on the banks of the Meuse and the Danube, in the shadow of the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal, yearned for the corner drugstore), Davis longed only for Stoke...
...even members of his family. He took walks by himself, ate meals by himself, published the few pieces he was able to publish anonymously or under an assumed name. "Not many writers," says Editor Arvin in his introduction, "worked so long amid such a hush or in such a shadow." Hawthorne's literary interests hardly explain the hush and shadow, although the hush and shadow go far to explain his literary interests...
...Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should muzzle the squirrels...
Owen Torrey, also a polo vaulter, has been performing pretty much in Harwood's shadow all spring. Several times he has grabbed second-he was tied for second in the Heptagonals-but he has never been able to top his adroit team-mate...