Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry things to buy: war has made a hurdy-gurdy of the town (pop. 179,356 in 1940) which romanticists used to eulogize as the place of abundant calm, a fair haven where even mynah birds waxed so fat that they hardly bothered to get out of way of wheel or foot...
...marital (wheel) conjugation...
Busybody. In Baltimore, within ten days, three-year-old Joe DeAngelis broke his leg, cut it, got seven stitches in it, tangled his left foot in his tricycle wheel, got eight stitches in it, fell off a table and fractured his arm, broke a glass and stepped on it with his right heel, got seven more stitches, was then...
...Pacific, unseasonably warm in Kansas City, cloudy in the morning when the city went to church, sunny by the beginning of the tragic midday. In San Antonio "the day was coolish and switched from grey to clear. . . . Out in wooded Bracken-Park, kids were riding the ferris wheel and flying jenny; babies were being held in swings; miniature trains were tooting and whistling as kids were whirled by adoring parents. . . . The main streets were pretty full of wistful-eyed window shoppers. . . ." It was December 7, and the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor and Manila...
...Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox) pipes sumptuous Monty ("The Beard") Woolley out of his wheel chair for the first time since he began playing The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Jan. 26) three years ago. The change is good for him. The belligerent old nanny goat turns into a very human portrait of a crotchety, kindly Englishman caught in France by the Nazi invasion. But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children...