Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...moppet in Waukegan, Ill., where his father ran a haberdashery shop, Benny fiddled with juvenile orchestras, played for dances and firemen's balls. Proud hope of his family in those early years was that Benny would develop into a concert violinist. Instead he teamed at 17 with a vaudeville pianist named Cora Salisbury in an act called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth...
...measure of British sang-froid and the "business as usual" spirit in London was shown last week by a crowd of several hundred women shoppers. They staged a hectic bargain rush in one of the big West End stores at the very moment when scores of firemen were digging through tons of debris in the same store in frantic efforts to release 200 clerks entombed in the basement night before by a bomb...
...served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner "Thank...
...commonplace last week for London fire fighters to go right on with their work in burning buildings while the next Nazi load of incendiary bombs was being brought up at full throttle. Only when these actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...