Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doherty, organizer of the birthday ball system, personally held sway. The third was a syndicate of birthday balls in Washington, to which 18,000 $2.50 tickets were sold entitling the bearers to visit balls at all or any of six hotels, to travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though no member of the Cuff-Links Gang, dropped in at the White House) and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Accompanied by a troupe of handmaidens including Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, Malvina Thompson Scheider and Marguerite ("Missy...
...next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there but somehow they missed directions and wound up at the police station. Very rotten taste, you know, mistaking a police station...
...Founder died in 1923. Spence School, endowed and incorporated, now occupies a nine-story uptown building, where its 26 boarders pay up to $2,200 to live & learn. The 174 day pupils arrive in limousines or in the school bus which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time...
...given up a promising career. When Leon's mother (with whom he boarded as long as she lived), had moved her establishment, Uncle Elie had stopped going to his lectures at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, because it would have meant spending an hour a day in the bus. He had effectively broken up Leon's prospective marriage by writing an anonymous letter falsely accusing Leon of being the father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer- both he and Leon lived on their dwindling capital-he always kept...
Unit figures are somewhat misleading, since nine-tenths of truck business is in low-priced, low-capacity units. White Motor makes a zoo-passenger bus with a twelve-cylinder "pancake" motor (cylinders opposed horizontally instead of in a V), which sells for $16,000. A bus is only one unit in production figures, but $16,000 would buy 25 Chevrolet delivery wagons. A ten-ton Mack truck costs around $8,000 without body, a price which would purchase a sizable fleet of Dodges...