Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...
Missing from the freshman bus were two key members of the team, Ed Grutzner and Jack Kiggen. Grutzner has flu, and Kiggen is suffering from a painful twisted knee sustained in spring soccer practice. While the team, strong in runners, may be able to fill in for quarter miler Grutzner, discus thrower Kiggen's untimely absence today may prove disastrous...
...will be close," Jaakko said yesterday before boarding the 6 p.m. bus for Hanover. "Jim Burnham will stop us from sweeping the hammer throw, and Dartmouth has some other fellows who could give us trouble...
Chloroform. The airline industry might find it could not afford to lose them all. The nonskeds had tapped a new market by making air travel cheap enough to lure bus and rail-coach riders who never flew before. If some of the irregulars had irregular safety records, they had also proved to the scheduled airlines that they could fill their planes by cutting frills and fares. Nevertheless, many scheduled airlines still agreed with ex-CAB Chairman James M, Landis that the U.S. was cluttered with too many airlines. "An intrinsically weak airline," he told a Senate committee last week, "either...
Impatience. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Ed Silas admitted stealing a car from a public garage, explained that he had just got "tired waiting for a bus...