Word: linden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Linden Tree (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Maurice Evans) has been running in London for seven months. On Broadway last week it folded after seven performances...
...country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley. England, being itself the hero of The Linden Tree, would understandably give it a hearing. But simply as playwriting it is talky and lifeless...
...landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want...
...editors bought out an office at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, where for the first time their own make-up facilities were contained within the building. One thing was still lacking, however: once the forms were composed and locked up, they had to be rushed downtown for printing...
...tunnel to the Yard runs from the Winthrop transmitter, through a short section of the dining hall tunnel, under Lowell, and up Linden Street. It consists of a narrow catwalk under Massachusetts Avenue between the top of the subway tunnel and the street, before connecting with the first tuning at Wiggles-worth...