Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child Psychologist. In Westerly, R.I., imaginative Patrolman Joseph Delaney found a missing five-year-old boy by sounding the fire siren. It brought him running...
Most powerful sponsor of U.M.W. readmission was Hutcheson. The Carpenters' chief, Federation Republican war horse for the last three Presidential campaigns, shares Lewis' rancor against Franklin Roosevelt. A veteran hotel-room trader, Hutcheson heard the siren song of the A.F. of L. presidency in the deals arising from the Lewis application...
...confidential alert came in at 8:59 o'clock, followed by the banshee wall of the blue siren at 9:10. Harvard blacked out immediately, the military dorms leading the way, the civilian ARP men in the College Houses following, and the older men of the graduate schools completing the darkness...
...morning last month, the raucous bell-and-siren summons to General Quarters routed officers & men of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer from their bunks to battle stations. In the distance a huge Atlantic convoy, Europe-bound, was silhouetted in a streak of silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...