Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea for barnstorming tours. He decided to take opera to smaller U. S. cities by the busload. Picking Rossini's oldtime Barber of Seville as the most portable opera (two scenic sets, chorus optional) that he could think of, he chartered a big, shiny Greyhound-type bus, remodeled its roof to accommodate a ten-foot pile of scenery, and started signing up a busworthy crew of singers from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He called his new venture "Opera a la Cart...
Please note the enclosed picture from TIME, Sept. 23, and explain how Hitler got to Buckingham Palace in time to help clear away the debris. Maybe he didn't miss the bus after...
...cement rise and part, and out push anti-aircraft guns. One other is a huge elevator which swallows into the Chancellery's great catacombs anything from a bicycle to a ten-ton tank. Every evening last week, as dusk rubbed out the building's heroic contours, a bus drove up on the sidewalk and disappeared into the ground...
...sure that this day [of invasion] will come. On this day the British will realize that the story of an overdue invasion was just as valueless as the story of the bus that Herr Hitler missed, and that their broad viewpoints were nothing but illusions that brought them oceans of blood and tears, just as Prime Minister Churchill predicted when he took over the Government...
...Philadelphia painter of children, made a sedate, fuzzy mural of children building a city of tomorrow, with her Maltese cat in one corner. Another mural, by Benton Spruance, Beaver College art teacher, did not seem to prove anything about the Law. It showed a Philadelphia family waiting for a bus...