Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next month, four formal practice sessions a week will be held on the range in the basement of Memorial Hall with Lieutenant James F. Gallsgher in charge...
...involved, After the Thin Man has introduced to cinema audiences as amusing a group of suspects as Author Hammett, its No. 1 purveyor of this specialty, has yet contributed to the screen. Included are: a monosyllabic cabaret keeper (Joseph Calleia) who shoots at Detective Charles in an apartment house basement; Mrs. Charles's Aunt Katherine (Jessie Ralph), who breaks photographers' cameras with an umbrella as big as a pole-vault pole; mild young David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles's cousin; a Chinese restaurateur (William Law) who looks like an owl, and a dancing...
...Museum's basement last week was another show, even more amusing to the general public. Entitled "New York at the Turn of the Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair...
...others are that both Judge Gaunt (Edward Ellis), who sentenced Romagna, and Trock Estrella, just out of prison and dying of consumption, have also seen newspaper stories which suggest the advisability of reopening the case. All three-the killer, the avenger and the blundering judge-arrive at the Esdras basement tenement the same night...
Fabulous are the stories of investors who got in on the ground floor of a new company, were lofted to riches by stock splits, stock dividends. Not related so loudly are accounts of the stockholder who got in on the ground floor, soon found himself in the basement, then the subbasement. Such a story could be written around Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. in seven chapters...