Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Siren's Stunt
...rounder-faced Pola Negri (Polish-born Appollonia Chalupec), 43, siren of the silent movies, was welcomed back to Hollywood for a comedy role in Hi Diddle Diddle. Said the twice-divorced Valentino-age vamp, who left the U.S. in 1932 to make German and French films: "All I want now is to marry, have children, and stage another great success in pictures...
...total casualties were inflicted at Stalingrad. It appeared that the Germans had sacrificed land in favor of men, and that the Russian winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force. of the three blasts of a tank siren in the opening measures. It did not smell like Virginia in the spring. It did not feel like that night in Washington when Patton said to some officers of the General Staff: "I want to fight the champ. If you lose, you've lost to the champ...
...SIREN IN THE NIGHT-Leslie Ford- Scribner ($2). Colonel Primrose, Sergeant Buck and the fluttery Mrs. Grace Latham are here concerned with a cyaniding job in San Francisco-a well-groomed, romantic, chilling tale in the best Ford style...
Under the new system, the preliminary warning will be announced by a continuous blast of the siren for two minutes. When the raiders are nearly overhead, an intermittent sounding of the siren will be given. Finally, the all clear signal will be broadcast by telephone or by whatever method the individual community deems best...