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There was an unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
...high time. Since Feb. 26, when President Roosevelt announced that the armed services would take almost every able-bodied U.S. male aged 18-26, Washington has been more topsy-turvy than ever. Representatives of industry after industry have streamed into town to wail that they could not possibly fulfill their war contracts if their young key workers were drafted. Officials of Army, Navy, War Manpower Commission, Selective Service, WPB, ODT, Petroleum Administration for War, et al, have been scrambling away at cross-purposes or behind each other's backs, trying to get favored treatment for their industrial wards...
...Really, I'm disappointed," said the explosives expert. "They are not nearly as good as they should be." But when the air-raid sirens began to wail at that moment, he ordered the car to stop, jumped into the safety of an underground station without pausing to say good night...
...Lost Wail. Leros in ancient days was the place where the daughters of Oeneus, turned into guinea hens, wailed for their brother Meleager. Last week the wailing was loudest in London. There were un official suggestions that General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson of the Mid-East Command ought to be replaced. The General did his duty, gave an explanation which left the blame...
Cheered by the success of The Naked Genius, three other frights wobbled hopefully to Broadway last week. SLIGHTLY MARRIED (by Aleen Leslie) was the fourth obstetrical farce in recent months, let out one frightened postnatal wail, expired. VICTORY BELLES (by Alice Gerstenberg), a free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments...