Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of general who, when he wants to see his corps commanders, goes to their headquarters. And if they happen to be busy with their own division commanders, he waits until they get through. Although he despises traffic jams, he never allows his driver to sound his siren. He likes cricket, maps, horses, detective stories, dislikes paper work and people who chew gum, has no interest in music or art. A bachelor, he lives with a brother in Sussex when he is in England...
True Confessions (current circ. 1,795,000) 'is now as straight-laced as a temperance speaker's corset. For two years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband; the crooked lawyer never does Honest John out of his inheritance; every last confession ends in an odor of uplift...
...need the siren asked for ... so either pass this request or refuse it and let us know, but for God's sake don't go on writing any more damn fool letters, wasting time, paper and the taxpayers' money in idiotic requests for information which cannot have any practical bearing on the application...
Salt Spring Island got its siren...
...doubled the circulation of the tabloid Times by such arresting noises. (In fact, his latest outburst was a tried-&-true Ruppel trick: a Times headline once blazoned: CHICAGO HAS A DIRTY NECK.) In his Times days, Ruppel got a hospital-bed picture by disguising photographers as clergymen, used a siren-screaming ambulance to rush World Series photographs to the engravers...