Word: exit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipful of passengers could not be safely evacuated because there is only one exit; novices would not know how to use a 'chute, probably would not jump if they had the chance. (Critic Graham: Let more exits be installed. Let passengers be instructed in 'chuting, as steamship passengers are taught how to use life preservers. Who can say whether or not they would jump...
...concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces a doorway; he cannot write unless he can look up and see an exit. His writing provides him a mental exit. These Restless Heads, concerned with Poictesme only in introspect, is his first book written over the decapitated signature Branch Cabell...
...appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny...
...Sage bows and makes his exit. The trumpeters tremble as they blow farewell. Heels click as attention is called. A toast! Bottoms up! "Aye, he's off for Manchuria." Other scores: Fordham 13 Bucknell 0 Southern Methodist 14 Navy 6 Notre Dame 14 Southern Cal. 13 B. C. 26 B. U. 0 Northwestern 20 Iowa 0 Cal. 13 Stanford 6 Tulane 34 Sewance 0 Lehigh 19 Lafayette...
...school of brittle intellectuals which bathed in the flotsam of a world beside itself. The decade of the twenties found a group of poets who distrusted the emotions, the subtler verse forms, the glories of nature, the grandeur of idealism. While the Romantics were making their last weak exit lines, these poets sat in a front box thumbing their noses with great determination. Today at 9 o'clock in Sever 7, Dr. Carpenter will lecture in America's contemporary poetry. The Vagabond is going; for don't doctors work on diseased corpses? And all the poetry is not discuses even...