Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salt Spring Island needed a fire siren which could be had only from the U.S. Dutifully, Volunteer Fire Chief Arthur Elliott filled out U.S. priority forms sent from Ottawa. Just as dutifully, he answered a long series of requests for additional information. Finally he had had enough international red tape. In a letter to Ottawa, Chief Elliott exploded with lyric wrath...
...books but better ones. Wrote Publisher Bennett Cerf (Random House) in the New York Post last fortnight: "The creation of a great reprint and chain-store market simply means that a deserving book will earn far more than it ever did before. The added bait may even dim the siren song of Hollywood in young authors' ears and persuade them to concentrate, as they did long, long ago, on making their every book the very best that they know, how to write...
Maria Montez is rapidly becoming Hollywood's most proficient actress in this type of art. She plays at being a siren with the delight of a little girl playing house. So boundless is her joy in her work that even a cinecynic can hardly help catching some...
...ship is just sounding the warning [siren screech] and now flak is coming up in the sky with streamers from the warships behind us. ... Now the darkness has come on us. These planes you hear overhead are the motors of the Nazis coming and going in the cloudy sky. . . . [Deep boom']. . . . That was a bomb hit. Another one! Fire bursts and the flak and streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing...
...binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...