Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxoffice. The blue-&-white sailor costumes which the boys are wearing for the U. S. concerts are symbolic of the secular turn their programs have taken. (In Washington last week they sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie.") Proceeds from their U. S. tour, to be taken in a bus labeled "Wiener Sängerknaben Special," will go to the school, not to the boys. Yehudi Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda when he has finished a violin recital. When the Viennese boys sing well they get candy...
...last week Dr. Baker, no longer a president, went back to Washington tired and alone. Passengers on a Pittsburgh-Washington bus saw him get aboard, a mild-faced, sandy-haired little man. Before the bus reached Washington, a 20-mi. trip, Dr. Baker alighted. Nearby was a funpark where W. &. J. students take their pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...
Completed as far as Medina in the Land of Saud is the "Holy Railway," paid for by Moslem pilgrims. From Medina they bus to Mecca...
...mayoral situation was further complicated by the presence of Joseph Vincent McKee in city hall. In a month bus}7, honest, economizing Acting Mayor McKee had gained immense popularity. He wanted to stay in office. But Tammany would have none of him because his economy campaign pinched jobholders severely. Last week there was talk that Mr. McKee, a Bronx Democrat independent of Tammany, might head an independent ticket against Tammany's Walker...