Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Sheean begins with a bus ride through London which set him musing on England's insularity. "In such a state," he concludes, "what preoccupations can there be other than the desire to make money, and more money, and to keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best...
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; produced by Gilbert Miller). Decade ago the late Minnie Maddern Fiske huffed, barked, flounced her way through a typical virtuoso's vehicle, Ladies of the Jury. Hungarian Ladislaus Bush-Fekete (né Bus-Fekete: the "h" was his idea of Americanizing the name) made a play with the same situation-a resourceful woman swinging the rest of a jury around from a verdict of guilty to acquittal in a murder case...
...London, where any temperature above 80° is called a heat wave, it was so hot last week that ten extra waiters were engaged to serve cooling drinks to perspiring legislators in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat in a Gravesend bus and, as her collapse wedged her inextricably between the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year), but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe...
...Detroit, Bus Driver Guy Hinton, fed up with years of driving the same old route, felt the need of a change. He turned off his prescribed route, went left or right whenever he felt like it, finally just drove in circles. Said he to startled passengers: "You can't get off until I'm ready to stop...
...Flushing, N. Y., World's Fair bus horns, instead of raucous honks, dulcetly tootle a few bars of The Sidewalks of New York. Results: Instead of getting out of the way, pedestrians stop to listen; Copyright Owner Max Mayer decided to demand royalties for each performance...