Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SHELTER -Jane Nicholson - Viking...
Templetarian, house organ of James Templeton & Co., Glasgow carpet makers, last week spoke of a new carpet order: "The firm has, during its long history, supplied carpets for many and varied uses, but never before for use too feet below ground. This particular order is for an emergency deep shelter which can be used by the British Cabinet for its meetings, if required...
Deep as the pile of a Templeton carpet are two secrets: where the Cabinet shelter is, where the bombed-out House of Commons is now quartered...
...work on, but he looked at a third strike. Yale got the lone tally in her half of the second on two clean singles and two passes, all coming after two men were out. The blurred background of reunion classes milling around behind the plate trying to get to shelter before rain came must have upset Waldstein. He had a temporary streak of wildness which almost meant the ball game...
Later, at a soiree, she discovers that her shelter mate is the guest of honor. Their hostess (Billie Burke) is a giddy lady who believes that "into the life of every English girl a little American should fall." Not in sympathy with that credo, Miss Carroll scampers home, gets into bed, puts on her gas mask and ponders whether the right man could see through its ugliness into her soul. As if to find out, she crawls on all fours to a wall mirror and barks at herself...