Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baby Bluestocking. A somewhat precocious child was mother to this Ideal Woman. Little Miss Garson was high-strung, bronchitic, given to fainting spells, and ill at ease with her nasty little peers (who called her Ginger). At an age when the average young Neanderthaler is spelling out "I HATE BOOKS," Greer was already too old for Alice in Wonderland. She sprinkled her porridge with table talk from succés d'estime like Colley Gibber and His Circle. "I was," she recalls, "rather a stuffy child...
...more than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last Peace Tomorrow...
...Atlantic City's Ritz a beribboned young fighter pilot with the taut-strung face of his trade stood looking out of the window of his room. He wondered why a pilot with a combat career behind him and a restless uneasiness in his soul had been ordered to Atlantic City, of all places. He was not wounded. He was not consciously sick of anything but British flying weather...
While the Alcan is officially "The Alaska Highway," it carries only war traffic. It was built, not for the vacation trade, but to service and supply the chain of airports strung along the air route which it follows...