Word: spangly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...
...Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...State Department announced that it had severed relations with French-owned Martinique, the green, blockaded Caribbean island which lies spang across the Atlantic approach to the Panama Canal. In his umpteenth sharp note, long-suffering Secretary Cordell Hull told the island's Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, that he was, in fact, a tool of Hitler. The U.S. would stand his obstinacy no longer; it recalled its consul general. (But the vice consul and a naval observer were left on the island.) The white-bearded, intransigent Admiral did not reply...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...
When its two-ocean fleet is complete, the U.S. will have 32 battleships-17 spang new, 15 of the old fleet. And the rest of its new ships (including eleven more carriers, 54 cruisers, 192 destroyers, 73 submarines) are taking shape apace. Good example: Portsmouth Navy Yard announced last week that it hoped to keep up with its "usual record"-a new submarine launched every six weeks...