Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimentalists there were such pieces as the flashily painted Exit Clown, Ballet Girl and Harlequin, and the portrait of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. And for college boys there were the Shinn nudes, mostly in pastel on colored paper with the high lights carefully brought out. There were enough of these young ladies gazing into mirrors (see cut), reclining on sofas, etc., etc. to outfit a dozen cocktail bars...
...streamliners have done us here? In this long stretch of uninhabited desert with no water, gas or oil for 135 miles, how much of a handicap would have been ours in one of the 1935 model automobiles, whose low-slung bodies, according to one advertisement, "make entrance and exit very easy because the running board is brought in close proximity to the curb...
...much larger than the old. big enough to accommodate a meeting of the 34 members of the National Emergency Council. Then he passed through a new corridor in which was a stairway leading to the floor below and a side entrance. The stairway was supposed to be a secret exit for Presidential callers who did not want to be stopped and quizzed by the Press in the main lobby. It remained a secret for about two hours. That same afternoon Secretary of War Dern arrived publicly for a conference, departed privately by the stairs. When newshawks failed...
Completing the traditional "once around the reservoir," Editor Leach bounced along the West Drive toward a Park exit, thinking of the anti-Crime indignation he hoped to arouse. Suddenly two men jumped from the shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered...
Leaving a Los Angeles concert, wily Cinemactress Greta Garbo chose a rear exit. In the alley outside she came face to face with a wilier cameraman. For a moment camera-hating Garbo hesitated. Then, hoisting skirts and cloak, she covered her face, exposed her petticoat, fled straight past the delighted photographer...