Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When there was five minutes or so left of gas, Junod let us know. We all solemnly shook hands and wished each other luck. We had a moment of heart failure when Foley at first could not get the emergency exit door open, but he finally gave the handle a hell of a kick and it shot off. Foley jumped immediately...
...Russians' memories of the League of Nations, and of their unhappy exit from the League, still burn and rankle. Russia perforce took a back seat in the League; she proposes to take and hold a front seat in the new world organization. Front-seat manners will have to be acquired later...
...seat, as if to say that Russia was not deserting the conference. Said Britain's Lord Halifax, strolling from the hall: "I don't think this is the end of the world." The Russians' memories of the League of Nations, and of their unhappy exit from the League, still burn and rankle. Russia perforce took a back seat in the League; she proposes to take and hold a front seat in the new world organization. Front-seat manners will have to be acquired later...
...character and giving her motives foundation, their loss is almost irreparable. In meeting the difficulties brought on by this omission, Dale Melbourne as Nora falls far short of possessing the ability to make the character seem real. The only impressions she leaves on the audience as she makes her exit at the last curtain are those of annoyance at her finger-twiddling, fast speaking portrayal of a stock Nora...
...with Noel Coward, who got royally booed by the boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...