Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...
Three Times & In. Usually the date is from M.I.T. or Harvard ("practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
Last week, as City Press moved into new offices on Randolph Street above Texas Guinan's old nightclub, news was waiting on the doorstep. Hearing a commotion in the street, Reporter Donald Coleman raced downstairs, found the cops chasing a fleeing prisoner, and phoned back a story on his recapture. Five minutes later, blue-inked, identical copies of Coleman's story were on city desks all over town...
This is reading period. In order to allow you to concentrate on studies without the temptation of something much more pleasant, the Crime will suspend publication tomorrow. It will be back at your favorite newsstand or doorstep Monday...