Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including Mayor LaGuardia of New York City and Representative Caroline O'Day of New York, to see how his "dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
...black, dustless, germless laboratories zigzags across the top floor of the main building of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Manhattan. Black are the floors, black the furniture, dark grey the windowless walls, shadowless the bleak illumination that comes through the skylights. Entrance to this aseptic, dustless, reflectionless hideaway is by a spiral staircase from an anteroom on the floor below. Only scientists particularly interested in fractioning life to its lowest common denominators may mount that spiral. And all must wash their hands and faces, put on gowns and hoods of black cloth-all except the master of this...
...climbs slowly back to fortune by way of unpaid radio appearances in Los Angeles, a chance to fill in during an operatic emergency, a role in a cheap movie that turns into a hit. When he is on top of the world again, with Juana in a Gramercy Park hideaway in Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme...
...live poultry racket, which the notorious "Tootsie" Herbert controlled was broken up. The trucking racket, one of the toughest in the City was put straight, through not before one of the leaders, a man well known in the District attorney's Office, had been murdered in his downtown hideaway. Of the 73 men brought to trial for such activities, Mr. Dewey has convicted 72, and it is little wonder that the Tammany ticket fears to see him gain the office of District attorney under LaGuardia, where his investigations may be even more devastating than before...
...trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason to applaud Danielle Darrieux's Dresden-china features. The young Baroness' mother hears of the affair, packs the girl off to forgetfulness in Trieste, where she pines for her rakish Rudolf, finally returns to him. In the hopeless hideaway of his hunting lodge, their story ends...