Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...echoing quiet of midnight had settled in the lighted corridors and the dim rooms and wards of St. Anthony's Hospital at Effingham, Ill. Outside, the town (pop. 8,000) and its surrounding farms slept. An operator-nun sat at the hospital switchboard, waiting for emergency calls. Out in the hall the elevator door banged open; a nun hurried from it to report that smoke was drifting in the hospital's upstairs corridors...
Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election since 1936 about 90 of the town's 700 citizens turned out to vote, and re-elected big, square-set John Froelich the village president...
That was all right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
...Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film. Maxwell Anderson's current creation on Broadway may create a new Henry for the popular taste, but so far the Laughton version still rules. Elsa Lanchester, Laughton's real wife, really goes to town with that nebulous character, Anne of Cleves...
...Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...