Word: vigilancy
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...Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion of scores of clerks, journalists and professional men who kept a 24-hour vigil over it. Guarding every foot of the roof, they extinguished firebombs as they landed and doused flaming cinders blown by the wind...
Escape (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Hollywood maintains a constant vigil these days for anti-fascist material with lots of bing-bang action. The appearance of pseudonymous Ethel Vance's novel Escape last year set off a scramble for its cinema rights which ended with an M. G. M. victory costing $50,000. It was worth...
...from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
News correspondents, on vigil in Room No. 4 on the second floor of Helsinki's Hotel Kemp, heard the German broadcast and several others from foreign stations, but still could get no confirmation from Finnish officials. No news came from the Finnish Diet, which wrangled in secret far into the night, debating whether or not to accept at this last hour the Allies' offer of 50,000 troops. Morning came, and though news correspondents were certain now of peace, Finns were not. A carpenter busy boarding up a store window against more bomb splinters said...
...birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...