Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NAVY DEPARTMENT PROHIBITS COMPLETE DETAILS HOWEVER CAN SAY THIS: TWO PARACHUTES WERE USED ACCORDING TO DOCTRINE. ON TAKING OFF WITH THE FORWARD IMPETUS OF TRANSPORT PLANE [WHEN THE FOULING OCCURRED] EMERGENCY PARACHUTE BROKE LOOSE FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER...
...more incidents came out last week to dramatize how far the President went to shroud his Churchill meeting in mystery...
...moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last week's tradition-shattering...
Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
...then, through a hole in that pink shroud, there twinkled incongruously a permanent, genuine star-the old-fashioned kind that has always been there. . . . These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known...