Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...
Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast...
Gene Harrigan and Pete Garland who top the bar in the neighborhood of six feet are close contenders for the first position in the high jump, while Pete Harwood, who has done 13 feet, is way out in front in the pole vault. The team seems to be potentially strongest in the weights where half a dozen husky contenders are all Varsity material...
...finally became a grandfather. At 58 he was a mild, grey-haired, paunchy, average man. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles, had an average job (employment manager for a branch of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co.), lived in an average frame house in an average Worcester, Mass, neighborhood...
...Neighborhood restaurateurs grumbled at the rush of unwanted customers, all of them in a hurry. The customers, who were theatergoers in search of a quick dinner between the acts of The Iceman Cometh, grumbled too. Result: prospects of a long run for The Iceman grew grey. Last week the Theatre Guild and Playwright Eugene O'Neill decided that henceforth The Iceman would start at 7:30 p.m., instead of 5:30; there would be no dinner intermission...