Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College students are no Aunt Prudences and at Harvard at least, there are few conscientious observers of the 18th Amendment, but the worst subway riot, the drunkenest football crowd are piddling trifles in the way of disturbances compared to a Legion Convention. Boston must have wanted the convention, or it would not have had it. Detroit has been awarded the convention for next year. By God, we hope she's satisfied...
...increase in the numbers of its students each year, the University might install special Registration Turnstiles in Memorial Hall, fitted to receive payment for term bills, Harvard Union memberships, and organized charity. Ten cents could be charged for the upkeep of this convenience and a slot modeled on the Subway plan could be arranged for its reception. Indeed if the Harvard of later years becomes definitely turnstile-minded, the obsequious machine might be put to good use in checking up on class-room attendance and keep the monitors permanently out of trouble...
...fashion of the day to devise novel settings for old mysteries, and the "Subway Express", now in production at the Hollis Theatre, is one of the latest examples to remove the melodrama from the more conventional English manor house, or, as was the height of the mode a season or so ago, the New York night club...
...come to the "Subway Express", a well-constructed mystery which maintains a high level of suspense through three acts without once leaving the subway car with which the first scene opens. The melodrama proved sufficiently real to carry the play successfully through a long season in New York, and, with Boston's peculiar penchant for supporting the mystery drama (as witness, the "Ghost Train"), the "Subway Express" may be expected to be with us for many weeks...
...graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...