Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got through last week upon a hospital, upon a family of six in a backyard shelter, upon apartment houses, upon more shops and busses. Londoners, shaken but still full of understatement, talked mostly about the lucky misses. One bomb sailed close over a crowd at a band concert in Hyde Park, landed a scant 500 yards away, killed only two. The band went on playing On Steps of Glory...
...temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice,' the loges and stalls becoming igloos of inadequate shelter during sequences of gelid motets, sleet-sheeted symphonies, and polar-cold oratorios...
Summer Storm (United Artists) drives that shapely moujik, Linda Darnell, into a Russian garden house for shelter, and into the steaming presence of a dissolute Raymond Lovell...
...Everyone must go about his business . . . and when the long day is done seek the safest shelter he can find. . . . This House will be affronted if any suggestion is made that it should change its venue...
...Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...