Word: hallways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entitled "The Door" is worth considerably more than three dollars all by itself. Another--a page and a half in length--is a perfect example of White's extraordinary genius. It concerns a woman who was convicted of "disorderliness"--she was found sleeping in two empty cartons in a hallway, wearing all the clothes she possessed, although she was gainfully employed and owned a reasonably fat bank account...
...Wienckus may be disorderly, but one pauses to wonder where the essential disorder really lies. All of us are instructed to seek hallways these days (except school children, who crawl under the desks), and it was in a hallway that they found Mrs. Wienckus. We read recently that the only hope of avoiding inflation is through ever increasing production of goods. This to us is always a terrifying conception of the social order--a theory of the good life through accumulation of objects. . . We salute a woman whose affairs are in such excellent order in a world untidy beyond belief...
...American tourists, I was brought by a devious route, with several stops and three changes of cars, to a house where a man with a Tommy gun stood guard at the door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid a sheaf of papers and a Mauser pistol on the table...
...General's living room is completely different. The ceiling is low, to create an appearance of depth. Probably the best feature of the set is the hallway that leads upstage on stage right. With the aid of Neil Smith's excellent lighting, Herrey has created an impression of great depth that effectively balances the "claustrophobic" office...
...officer from the Detective Bureau led us upstairs and down a long, narrow, high-ceilinged hallway which led to the Crime Prevention bureau. They had three men inside, with their representatives...