Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...
...hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
Latest victim of priorities on scarce materials: fire-engine bells. Because "an ordinary siren will do the job," OPM last week forbade bells (on new fire engines) for the duration...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
Pola Negri, 41, oldtime siren of the silents, and Negrophile Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England...