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Maroon, meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...
Suspicion (based on Francis Iles's Before the Fact) opens with the authentic Hitchcock touch: a conversation in a railroad train speeding through a pitch-black tunnel. The picture tells the story of a charming, highborn, impoverished British wastrel (Mr. Grant) and his marriage (for love and money) to a sensitive, sensible daughter (Miss Fontaine) of a retired English general (Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
...management, had built 92 new school buildings, 14 health-center buildings, nine child-health stations, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 15 outdoor swimming pools, 845 wading pools, 252 tennis courts, 8,210 acres of new parks and playgrounds, six enclosed markets, 14 huge low-rent housing developments, one tunnel (and another under way), 77 track-miles of subways, 21 bridges and viaducts (five of the bridges enormous revenue-producers), 2,000 miles of curbing and re-curbing; 1,200 miles of sidewalks and paths. And it removed 160 miles of street car and railroad tracks, 30 miles of elevated railway...
Soon a wrecking crew will start tearing down the big grey, circular building that has stood on the Battery for 134 years. Its solid, eight-foot walls will be leveled to make way for the wide approaches to Manhattan's new vehicular tunnel under the East River to Brooklyn...
Although they suffered from not being acclimated to the rarefied air, the party toiled upward for several days over steep ice packs and snow banks until two huge cornices, or overhanging ledges of ice, and a dangerous avalanche tunnel barred all further progress...