Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two cases should be sufficient to explain my attitude. I might add further statements I have made which also resulted in personal indignities: (a) "If you like baseball, why don't you wait until the Yankees get into town?" (b) "What do people find so enthralling about crew races, anyhow...
...article printed above does not now, and never has, represented the opinion of Donald Carswell, Peter B. Taub, Charles W. Bailey, William S. Fairfield, Bayard Hooper, or any of the CRIMSON's regular sports writers. They left town for the summer two days...
...reporter for a small-town newspaper, Sarah has an easygoing role which she wears with relaxed assurance. She joins forces, romantically and politically, with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society. Some of its finds-notably an overstuffed, off-key performance of the Operatic Society-are bright and amusing. Other bits & pieces have already been tarnished by too much handling...
...sprightly lesson in postwar civics, Town is not as lively as it could have been. As a miniature showcase for Miss Churchill's slight but persuasive talents, it does all right...
...that . . . later, Mr. Banks came out from town on the three-fifty-seven, composing an informal and, he hoped, dryly humorous little speech. It was to be about Kay as a little girl, Kay growing up and finally, in a big surprise climax, Kay announcing her engagement." But at Kay's engagement party, Mr. Banks never got to make his speech: he spent most of the party in the pantry, slopping together old-fashioneds at break-glass speed...