Word: bus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually research established that the Belfast police had assigned to the Vice regal car the same running lights as those already held by a local bus route...
Over 800 men of the Class of 1931 fille the Living Room of the Union last night in the informal meeting concluding a bus day for the first year men. Assistant Dean Mitchell Gratwick '22 presided an after a short welcome he introduced the first speaker of the evening, Dean A. Hanford who addressed the assemble class as "Fellow Freshmen," referring to his first year in the Dean's Office Dean Hanford quickly brought his talk to discussion of the purpose of an education. He advised his charged to all toward, first, a development of intellect all power, second...
...interpreter smiled when he remarked: "That is why I've been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking to Italians and forgetting Colum-bus." ¶After three days of lolling in bed or on the Lido beach, Mayor Walker emerged from his hotel to take the train for Rome. Said he: "I now feel like $1,000,000." ¶In Rome, the Mayor visited St. Peter's Basilica, saddened by the newly reported disaster...
...doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough to lope down the avenue in my ripe...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...