Word: signalling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...returns to character again when the planes come aboard. On a platform at her stern the signal officer brings them in. They plunk down with a bang into the arresting gear, while the parti-colored uniforms of her goblins appear and disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
LONDON, Wednesday--Bombs dropped on a midlands town in a short but vicious raid last night caused some casualties and considerable damage while a lively flurry of activity over London petered out and the all-clear signal was sounded before midnight...
...Capra to direct directors, Edward Arnold to handle actors, Sheridan Gibney to watch writers, Fox's Alfred Newman to superintend music. Under this imposing superstructure, whose services go free, the industry's younger, less expensive workmen will labor for pay in cooperation with the Army's Signal Corps to turn out the product...
...strictly non-profit enterprise, said Hollywood; the films are to be distributed free for exhibition in the movie theatres to be built at all training camps. Major Nathan Levinson of the Signal Corps Reserve put it more bluntly, growled: "Nobody's going to make a dime out of this, and if they think they are, they'd better pull their horns in right...
...with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...