Word: bus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily rides the Ozone Park bus to dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin...
...discovered that the ship's store was closed, sending cigarets to a premium. There was steak for supper, however, and a visible abundance of Scotch & soda. Immediately ahead was the prospect of tumbling pouch-eyed off the boat at 7 a. m., to be whirled by bus to Schenectady. Ahead for the week was the prospect of a good look at the inside workings of scientific industrial research in five cities...
...Wichita, Kans., seized by police for giving her four-year-old son a cigaret to smoke in a bus, Mrs. Harold Young, 29, of New York City, complained, "What's the kid to do to pass away the time if he can't smoke...
...improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed the priest's crucifix, each received on the forehead a dab of holy water from a long black brush. Finally the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff marched around La Maisonette...
...half-hour earlier, an Eastern Steamship liner leaves India Wharf at 5.30 o'clock, on which a special roundtrip fare is also available. John R. Shobe, who has instructed many undergraduates, will personally fly a six-passenger plane to West Point Saturday morning. Lastly, there is frequent low-price bus service, the more or less open road for those driving themselves, and hitchhiking for those with good thumbs...