Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route No. 1 was frozen tight all the way south to Philadelphia. All bus service was suspended. No airmail or air express or air passenger service attempted to get through to Boston...
...many a town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...
Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...
...Happened One Night (Columbia) contains the material of many a recent picture: the brash, whiskey-drinking newshawk (Clark Gable); the girl (Claudette Colbert) whose father thinks she has been kidnapped; the Florida-New York bus on which they are riding North together-the girl to join her recently-acquired socialite husband of whom her father disapproves, the reporter to get the story of her escapade...
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...