Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
Gloria Swanson, 45, high-styled siren of the silents, complained to a Manhattan court that since her fifth husband had left her she had been living on borrowed money, and now she wanted $1,000-a-week support. William N. Davey, 52, who married her in January and left her in April, charged that she had misrepresented her debts and had failed to tell him before the marriage that she needed an expensive operation, and now he wanted an annulment. Gloria argued Wall Streeter Davey's ability to pay: he kept a $100,000-a-year yacht...
...next night, backed by soldiers, the hoodlums in white attacked the newspaper Critica and tried to burn its building. Critica telephoned for police, but none came. So the newspaper sounded the siren on its roof. The victory crowd rushed up, drove out the Government forces at the cost of two dead, many wounded...
...more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real personality...
...audience of 1,200 soldiers and natives who gathered last week inside the crumbling walls settled back to listen to Beethoven's Third (Eroica) Symphony. Occasionally during the softer passages, a siren wailed or a bulldozer could be heard working away at Manila's rubble. Beads of perspiration tipped Dr. Zipper's sharp nose. In the first row sat Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, in a pink cotton frock.. Also present was the Symphony's president, Mrs. Benito Legarda, a handsome Philippine woman who hid the Society's instruments and scores from the Japs...