Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although Robert Fletcher's performance as the schoolmaster was quite acceptable, I felt he lacked assurance, and his mugging and on-and-off brogue detracted from his characterization. But my reaction is to be pitted against the applause he won from members of the audience after his final exit...
...came a tapping. It repeated. And another tapping. Everyone must have been conscious of it. A few shifted in their seats and looked around. But it took a moment for the realization to spread that the tappings were coming from those left outside, knocking hopefully on one of the exit-doors at the rear of the balcony--hoping that there might be one more scat inside. The man who had charge of such things would pull back the curtain on the door and tell them to go away. But later there would come another tapping on another door--always...
...leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman attendant grabbed my passport and exit permit and as good as told me that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers of grey bread - bought in Belgrade...
...dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...
Harvard College meant to take no chances. As a postwar requirement, every freshman living in Harvard Yard's hallowed but inflammable old halls had to know how to make a quick exit by rope. Last week the dean's office declared there had been too much backsliding in rope sliding, ordered all proctors to see that their charges had clambered down a twelve-footer at least twice. Some, like Freshman John Brown of Holworthy Hall, practised from their windows (see cut), others in the gym. Among Harvard's reasons from stricter enforcement: last winter's Kenyon...