Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wail of an air raid siren will echo from the Yard tomorrow for the second time, as the alarm on top of the Widener Library is given its first official test between noon and 1 o'clock...
Kamins had wired the CRIMSON to bear the torch in behalf of his protegee, the petite cinema siren, whose optic-concealing hairdo has caused more barbers to close shop than the virtuosity of the celebrated gentleman of Seville...
...regular bombing days," he wrote, "you get a few minutes' warning from a loud-sounding siren, or from the ring of steel, or from men beating pots & pans. Sometimes we sense planes coming before the alarm sounds. Then a shout echoes from dugout to dugout: 'Tojo's coming...
Shanghai Gesture is notable for its inexcusably bad acting and directing. Magniloquent Director Josef von Sternberg (once plain Joe Stern of Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...
...reply to the statement of a Boston paper that merchants in the Square had not even heard the alarm, the Eastern Company said that the purpose of the siren was to get people off of the streets, not bring them out. The Eastern Company is supplying the City of Cambridge with the apparatus...