Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bus, tram and dray Australia's citizens flocked to Australia's polls last week to elect a new Parliament. The large turnout did not mean an equally large interest in the election, but merely an effort to avoid the $10 fine imposed on Australians entitled to vote who fail...
...Harvard squad of fourteen players, Coach Henry Chauncey '28 (also a Freshman Dean) and Mrs. Chauncey left Cambridge on July 11, travelling by bus to Chicago and then by train to the Pacific Coast where they arrived an July 17 just at the time of the deck strike there. The teat managed to get aboard ship, however and set sail for Hawaii where they spent two weeks and played in five exhibition games...
Stranded in Scarboro, Me., when fog grounded a Bangor-Boston airliner, Doris Duke bought a $2 ticket, climbed into a bus. At Portsmouth she had a sandwich and cup of coffee in the railroad station, thanked the driver: "I'm awfully glad you stopped here. I was starving." At Boston she was met by one of her nine cars, a $14,000 Dusenberg. whisked off to Newport...
...from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City, N. J., ill in hospital with lockjaw, received, for no reason that the Press could discover, a letter wishing...