Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever moves without glancing back over his shoulder; the camera eye blurs with rage as Powell's fists beat & beat at the villain's face; the screen goes black while the hero fumbles about in a dark room ; two characters hold an important conversation near a subway track so that nearly every sentence is suspensefully interrupted by the roar of a passing train...
Once she got into teaching, and then into the deanship, Virginia kept Barnard-on-the-subway a lot like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent. She was conservative by temperament, but in her commonsensical way of facing each new project with a scalpel eye, she made Barnard modern. She is a devotee of the classics, but she abolished compulsory Latin. Barnard under Dean Gildersleeve let the girls smoke and taught them sex hygiene without raising the hubbub that these topics roused in other colleges. Once, when asked what obstacles she had had to overcome in her career, she answered characteristically: "None whatever...
Seven years ago the "El" was torn down and replaced by a decently buried subway. Then the hard sunlight really showed up Sixth Avenue's tawdriness, made its occasional big stores and skyscrapers look prissy...
...office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...fathers and mothers again. But five years of chewing U.S. gum, watching U.S. ball games and listening to Frank Sinatra had left their mark. Many had lost their childhood accents, and all had achieved a glib mastery of U.S. slang. Said twelve-year-old Norman Whitehead, after a final subway ride and ice-cream binge: "I'm going to tell my parents that I painted the town red-that will defeat them...