Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...
...chaste ad in the New York Times offered gold brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
July 22 ... The young chap . . . made a famous attempt [to walk] this morning...
...melancholy object to those who walk through the Yard or along the riverbank when they see hundreds of freshman, seraway and suffering from malnutrition, importuning every passerby for a sausage. These students, istead of being able to spend 16 to 18 hours a day on their work, are forced to employ all of their time in roaming Cambridge to beg for a pittance of flesh. Countries ago, in 1729, a similar food shortage gripped Ireland, and Joha than Swift offered a plausible and efficient solution. Unfortunately, civilization was not sufficiently advanced to recognize the wisdom of his plan...
...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...