Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writes Barmine: "That evening the legation staff gathered as usual to hear the Moscow broadcast. We exchanged small talk and even tried to make a few jokes. Nobody dared mention what was upper most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway was progressing nicely; a Party conference was in session. He read off figures concerning the housing campaign and the latest total of ore production. And then, without any change of tone: 'Gamarnik, ex-member of the Central Committee of the Party, fearing that his anti-Soviet machinations would...
...wizened Upperclassman wearily emerged from the subway kiosk in the Square, and stepped unexpectedly into the waiting arms of a '49er. He paused, and the hours-old Freshman promptly took his bag and offered to show him the "campus." "It's easy, once you get the hang of it," he said, with a knowing...
...knows that at least one innocent man was machine-gunned while entering a subway station. He knows also that reputable citizens . . . have been arrested . . . spirited away [or forced] to choose between exile and imprisonment. [There have been] hundreds of ... cases. . . . All jails in the country are full to overflowing...
...Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...
...could be justly argued that such things do occasionally happen-and ought to happen more often. Once you accept the basic premise, however, there are still drawbacks. The young lovers wouldn't be likely to spend the night so whimsically, to lose each other so casually in the subway, to find each other if they did, or to run into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur...