Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture opens in the lunch wagon where Nick Adams is eating his supper. The two men in the overly tight black overcoats come in looking for the Swede. From then on, for the next five or six minutes it is straight Hemingway. Except for editing out a reference to the cook as "nigger," Director Robert Siodmak plays Hemingway's tough, tight little story straight and to the letter...
...head man, Wadsworth gets to his Cross Street headquarters in midafternoon, has supper sent up from the office canteen. He directs the brief 5 o'clock news conference, assigns the leaders, manages to turn out one long leader himself each week. He is careful to see that the Guardian's news is displayed with grace and readability, but has no intention of putting news on the ad-covered front page. "We think that what the hasty reader loses," he says, "the careful reader gains from a nicer inside make...
...executives . . . continue to go their old Lobster-Supper-Charlie way, delighting in the pitiful ostentations of the nouveaux-riches. . . . They can never leave well enough off alone...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...afternoon last week, for reasons best known to himself, O'Neill was back on Broadway with a mysterious play, mysteriously titled The Iceman Cometh, which would run for four and a quarter hours, with a 75-minute break for supper...