Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloomy Sunday is a 120-year-old tradition in Mississippi. An 1822 blue law still forbids Mississippians to attend bearbaiting, cockfights, bullfights and any other routine amusements of a Sabbath. Sunday movies are taboo-to the intensified boredom of some 110,000 soldiers training in the State. They wander aimlessly up & down the dead, empty streets of Mississippi towns, honing for something to do, and usually finding it only in honky-tonks and back-street bordellos...
...undergraduate ate a special Mem Hall early breakfast and caught a private train to Springfield, where they alighted to wander around waving crimson flags and flunting crimson neckwear and Harvard buttons till game time, 2:15 o'clock...
...strange thing," wrote New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger, "to wander through this factory and see hundreds of peasant women, each with a bright kerchief around her head, stamping out and testing intricate machine parts. Men are doing the heaviest types of work and dozens of young technical students in their teens are employed as apprentices. The factory works day & night. The workers are on the job wartime hours-eleven a day, six days a week...
This dippy denouement spoils the picture, but it does not spoil the excellence of many of its parts. Actors Grant and Fontaine make very attractive love to each other, turn in a high-grade performance. And, thanks to Hitchcock's tricks (letting the camera wander down cliffs, pause disturbingly on people's faces), the film has a texture that can almost be touched...
Come down to Yale at football time, at football time, at football time; Come down to Yale at football time (it isn't far from Vassar) And you will wander hand in hand with someone else's roommate, and Will drink a pail of Mory's ale (and oh, so near to Vassar...