Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pushing the three in front of him, he stepped into the street. No one was on the sidewalks but bullets began whanging at him from all around, shattering the bank's front windows, splintering the woodwork. Durand began shooting at random. Gawthrop slumped to the pavement, mortally...
Across the street in a filling station, Otis Gillette, the proprietor, loaded his rifle and thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank...
When Jimmy was 17, Hines Sr. sickened never to recover. Jimmy ran the smithy, by 21 was acting for his father as election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats for a young man on the upper west side. Tammany took care of its own; he wasn't sent to jail...
...same, after Katharine Cornell came brilliantly of age, at the end of 1924, with Candida, she reveled in mediocre plays (The Green Hat, The Age of Innocence, Dishonored Lady) with fat, showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all members of the faculties and their wives at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, April 2, from four to six o'clock...