Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drifters from the sidewalks and the magazine rooms, a few tired shoppers from 42nd Street, earnest students with notebooks and clattering herds of bewildered schoolchildren filed into a long exhibition room of the New York Public Library last week. Sprinkled among this crowd was many a Catholic nun, cowled & coiffed. fluttering gently from case to case or resting quietly on the benches to say a silent prayer for J. Pierpont Morgan who in the goodness of his Protestant heart had unlocked his shelves to let them see some of the greatest treasures of their Church...
Count Prorok will leave Paris on December 10, 1933. His expedition will cover Lybian and the territory surrounding the Nile. Students who are interested may get in touch with James E. Boyack, 122 East 42nd Street, New York...
...summer edition of the Manhattan telephone book, which went to press before he resigned, carries the listing, not under Texas Corp., but in the H's: "R. O. Holmes, chairman of the board, 135 E. 42nd.... Murray Hill...
...Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled Mayor O'Brien on the reviewing platform...
...line of her own to Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having her own way, once had a ton of tanbark dumped in Manhattan's 42nd Street to mute traffic noises during her performance...