Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Laurens ("Daisy") Van Alen, goldplated, blue-haired blue-blood of Newport, engaged a bomb-shelter expert to build a subterranean luxury shelter on her estate with all the comforts of home, air conditioning, special lighting effects, a tunnel to the mansion. She also laid in an eight-year supply of cosmetics...
When the evacuation is ordered, men will proceed either to their rooms, or to one of the buildings designated as a shelter, as ordered by an Air Raid Warden. Two wardens have been assigned to each floor in such buildings as Sever and Emerson, while there will be wardens posted outside at the entrances of shelters, and inside the shelters themselves...
...event of an alarm at night, there are wardens in the Architectural School, at Robinson Hall, until 11 o'clock every evening, and these men will be stationed at shelter buildings and entrances...
Loretta Young was chosen by Columbia seniors as their favorite raid-shelter companion...
...Wake derives much from the philosopher Giambattista Vico's cyclic theory of history, which is highly apposite to the present. According to Vico, and Joyce, the first of a civilization's four phases begins, and the last collapses, in fear of thunder, and a rush for underground shelter; and in that sheltering cave, religion and family life begin again. Today the ambiguous thunder talks above every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work of literature after another, meanwhile...