Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Towards midnight, a flare burst from a circling airplane, bathed the marsh in man-made moonlight. Boats pushed out from the rushes, pulled alongside the plane's door. Rescuers began removing the passengers. Dr. Crile had begun to wander a bit. "I am Dr. George Crile," he said. "I want a warm bath." Captain O'Brien was unconscious...
...Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry thirty thousand passengers in, out, and through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number of busses and the great space absorbed by the subway kiosk in the middle...
...time or hurry, none of providing against the future. In the spring they undergo physical mutations. The eyes intensify, the skin becomes red-glowing purple; they gather in frenzy at the trading posts and copulate day & night "in a sort of delirium, in exhaustible and insatiable." In summer they wander miserably, plagued with insomnia, sleep where they drop from exhaustion. To the "severely magnificent winter months" and their terrific hardships they are perfectly adapted. Then they become the most cheerful, convivial people de Poncins had ever known...
...deal with the world crisis since Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night." Its functional if unexciting scene is the interior of a transatlantic Clipper during a Lisbon-New York flight. The interior, is so faithfully reproduced that old Clipperites might expect genial Captain Bill Winston to wander in and begin expounding his sure-fire method of winning at roulette...
...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...