Word: playground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of The Condemned Playground by Cyril Connolly [TIME, July 29]. The reason Connolly did not include U.S. literature is obvious; U.S. literature, with the sole exception of Joseph Hergesheimer (as far as I know), reflects the Industrial Revolution...
...summer season was in full, gay swing last week along the smooth, half-moon beach at swank San Sebastian, official summer playground of Spanish officials and Madrid's diplomatic corps. But while some of Fascist Franco's officials relaxed on the white sand, others renewed their vigilance over the nation's morals...
...prospect was tempting: "After parking her car with thousands of others in the roomy rooftop garage, the young housewife left her baby with a nurse in the playground. Strolling along the broad canopied walks and through the buildings, she stopped to watch the skaters in the rink, glancing now & then at the glittering dance hall, the glass-brick hotel, the handsome bus terminal, the quiet professional building where she could see hospital patients sitting at the windows. The moving sidewalks carried her past some hundred air-conditioned shops...
...building will be divided into three separate playrooms, one each for two, three, and four year olds. Each team has a door leading into an individuaL playground...
Several groups of students expressed their relief upon hearing of the new site. Students in Stoughton Hall, adjacent to the present playground, said that they had high hopes of passing at least two of their courses next term...