Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jerry Dodge's drunken Porter is a commendable cameo. And he gives an admirable solution to one textual problem. Just before Macduff and Lennox enter through the gate, the Porter has the line, "I pray you, remember the porter." A number of scholars claim this is meant as an aside to the audience--which seems pretty silly. Dodge, however, saves the line until Macduff enters, and then speaks it with one palm extended, thereby turning it into a request for a tip in return for having roused himself to open the gate at an ungodly hour...
...same firm is preparing plans for the extension of the subway line into North Cambridge. It now appears that there will be a new station constructed at Porter Square and another at the intersection of the Alewife Brook Parkway and Massachusetts Avenue...
...ambiance, part the views of Mount Etna and the Sicilian seascape. Though rooms are air-conditioned, most guests leave their windows open to enjoy the perfume from orange, lemon and almond trees in the garden beneath. Winter used to be the peak season, and in those days, recalls Night Porter Antonino Cappelli, as few as three titled families would fill the whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing...
...MBTA will extend its Harvard Square line into North Cambridge, with one stop at Porter Square and another at Alewife Brook Parkway, where new repair yards will be located to replace the Bennett St. facilities across from Eliot House...
...Cambridge. Ask anyone who says he know, and he will conjure up images of effortless pick-ups by day--all those sweet little girls who come to Cambridge to get a Harvard man of their very own--and endless parties by night in the enclaves -- Putnam Square, Harvard Street, Porter Square--where Harvard and Radcliffe students tend to cluster. Like all such legends, some of the Cambridge summer-time stories are true and some are not--or, more accurately, they are more true for some than for others...