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...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
Some of the boys started shooting craps in the washroom of car K2. The serious drinking went on in car K3. The boys had their wives' expectations and their reputation to live up to: after all, they had bragged as the years rolled by that they were the hell-raisingest outfit in the A.E.F. But after an hour or so the four sleeping cars became noisy with comfortable snores...
There is also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
...divorced and the father of two, Rooney is still a brilliant if limited performer. But he is no longer Andy Hardy. Playing a bookish kid who recoils from sex in the raw, he gives the impression that he not only knows the meaning of the dirty words on the washroom wall but probably put a few of them there himself...