Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...
Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...experts are inclined to accept Peter Masefield's figures, except those for France and Germany. The British, they say, exaggerate Hitler's air power in France, consequently overestimate the number of Nazi planes keeping vigil against Britain. U.S. information is that the bulk of Germany's western air fleet is still within the Reich, a position whence it could be hurled quickly against Russia, Britain or to the south, as occasion arises...
...other is his antidote for getting over a bad spot in a picture. He just strides up & down interminably while everyone waits. The late Carole Lombard stood it as long as she could during the filming of Vigil in the Night, finally phoned her agent from her bed at 5 o'clock one morning: "I just thought what that pacing and thoughtful look of Stevens' mean." "What?" asked the sleepy agent. "Not a goddam thing," said she, and went back to sleep...
...Manhattan firm (Defense Blackout & Camouflage Co., Inc.) rushed into print, advertising a "blackout consultant service." > In Scarsdale, N.Y. mothers took up their vigil in parked cars outside the Scarsdale High School, to carry their children home if bombers appeared...