Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time I had made my way to the second floor of the Hygiene Building to report my illness it was 12:03 p.m. "All the doctors go away at noon," I was told, "and they don't come back until 1:30. Why didn't you come in the morning?" I said I was too sick, was still sick, and if I couldn't see a doctor I wanted to see somebody. I was directed to a waiting room on the third floor where a nurse took my temperature. It was 100. She told me to go to lunch...
June Havoc is surprisingly good as the dead girl's showgirl friend; Alan Ladd and Donna Reed are unsurprisingly mediocre, but no one would go to the movies to see them, anyhow. "Chicago Deadline" is not the sort of picture you'd go out of your way to see; but once inside, you won't walk out, either...
Further along, someone was saying what a fine group this freshman class was, theoretically anyway. "More potential athletes and newspaper editors," added the gentleman, by way of example. In another corner: "The secret is to work not hard, but intelligently. Find the intellectual speed at which you work the most efficiently, and stay there...Find your pace...Remember everyone can't be top dog around here...
...freshman at the piano was now rendering "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." My third tonic bottle was emptied, and I headed for supper, passing, on the way out, one guest with a Boy Scout badge in his lapel. Only one of the freshmen had been in uniform--khakis and blazer--and most wore matching coats and trousers. It won't be so in four years...
...Closing Door," contains little humor, and what there is could easily be done away with. The dialogue doesn't seem very important, but serves the purposes of the plot well enough. The plot, by the way, concerns an unemployed man who has lost faith in himself and is hovering on the brink of insanity. His loving and loyal wife is trying to get him into an asylum for treatment when the play begins. The entire play covers only the next few hours...