Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Some of the situations are tried, true and a little tired. But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
...soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base's siren whined farewell...
...other nations understood themselves better. In Washington another traveler mused. Energetic, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, leader of the House of Commons, declared: "We [Britons] haven't properly got used to [peace] and often have to think twice when an automobile in low gear makes a noise like a siren. . . . We still can't afford to light shop windows at night or allow electricity to be used for advertising signs...
Three days out of four he donned his familiar Air Force blue siren suit, now a bit baggy in the behind. Afternoons he kept appointments in the library, well stocked with the works of Winston Churchill in many editions and languages...