Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money talks." Shrewd at dealing with all kinds of politicians, he boasts: "I'm a member of Tammany Hall and proud...
...everyone was as nice as could be, until one fine day a strapping girl persuaded him to go swimming with nothing on. A policeman ran him in, the girl's brother got a gang together and beat him up. Disillusion dawning, Uan went away from there. On a bus to Salt Lake City a stranger gypped him out of his remaining cash. Undaunted, Uan turned hobo. In adversity he discovered a few good companions : a fellow-hobo, a beautiful girl who gave him a horror of the second-rate, turned him from an art student to a hospital orderly...
...windows. A few Negro shopkeepers sought immunity with signs saying: COLORED STORE. Some white merchants took this cue to post notices: COLORED HELP EMPLOYED HERE. Vainly a Chinese laundryman pleaded: ME COLORED TOO. Hanging eternally out of their windows, Harlem's less excitable householders saw a Fifth Avenue bus stoned, heard the frightened cries of passengers in a Boston bus as eleven pistol shots thudded into its side. Looting followed the smashing of more than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their guns. Five robbers were shot, one fatally...
...Some airline operators and bus lines have standing orders for employes to obliterate all company insignia on a vehicle immediately after a wreck. Zealous operators have been known to carry out that order even before attending the injured, extricating the dead...
Author O'Hara's subjects are as topical and immediate as newspaper stories: an influenza epidemic in a Pennsylvania mining district; a bus-girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...