Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right,' as a great compliment to the Americans...
When they cut the roads to the north and south, the Germans pulled out to the west, leaving snipers and machine-gunners to be mopped up. Most of the people seemed too dazed by Allied fire to greet the liberators with more than a wave and a wan smile. On a street still under German shellfire, a man carved himself a steak from a dead horse...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...
...Atlantic was wan and weak when Editor Weeks took over. Later other young blood (notably urbane Richard Ely Danielson, with new ownership money) was infused. The oldtimer soon sat up to a new diet: less literature for literature's sake, more topical, issue-grappling articles. This week Editor Weeks and Publisher Donald B. Snyder could report a strong Atlantic pulse: 1943 advertising up 38% from 1939, December 1943's circulation of 108,037 (not including newsstand sales, which bring it to Snyder's estimate of 125,000) up 78% from 1939's average. The Atlantic...
...dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating The War Between Men and Women (including The Fight in the Grocery and Zero Hour-Connecticut...