Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auxiliary Unit was fortunate last week in obtaining permission to use the Cambridge Fire Department's drill tower on Portland Street for one of its drills...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...still tempted to try the Ken, you'll find it hiding behind a White Tower Hamburger Stand, just beyond the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Boston. To get to the Savoy, take an Egleston car at Park Street, get off at West Newton Street, and walk right one block...
Bouncing up out of last week's doldrums, Brattle Hall present an excellent version of "The Dark Tower" with Gloria Stuart performing as the best leading lady so far this season. This breezy little play was written by Alexander Woolcott and George S. Kaufman, whose combined wits succeeded in toppling the more sedate Brattle Hallers off their moral pedestals...
Other factors of importance in the show are the direction, which is some of the best this season, and the setting--both props and scenery, which all help to make "The Dark Tower" the best play Summer School students have had a chance...