Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fogg Art Museum, the Faculty Club, Warren House--home of English A., The Union--Freshman social center, and housing in its basement the offices...
Reporting an hour early for his first day's work* as a stock boy in the basement of William Filene's Sons department store in Boston, John Aspinwall Roosevelt entered by the wrong door, drew the wrong time slip, forgot to throw away his cigaret. Said he: "I'm really serious about this job. The sooner everybody forgets I'm my father's son, the better it will be for me. ... It sure is interesting...
...Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time playing the xylophone, experimenting with false faces and training pet birds. Thus when Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), the only member of the family normal...
...play, the climax of the clash, like all the rest of the action, occurred in the Vanderhof living room, where the Kirbys, arriving the night before they had been invited for dinner, were just in time to be carted off to jail when the fireworks in the basement exploded prematurely. Unimpeded by the restrictions of the stage, the camera follows the party to jail, then into court, then into the newspapers, then into a board meeting at the Kirby bank in a series of scenes which lifts the feud between the Kirbys and the Vanderhofs to the plane of that...
...stock clerk at $18 weekly in William Fileno & Sons' department store bargain basement, John spent the day changing price tags on women's dresses...