Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pioneers. In Denver, the City Council refused to abolish the Park Hill bus route, despite the Denver Tramway Corp.'s complaint: the drivers were always getting lost...
...blue bus arrived from downtown and a lot of important-looking people got out. You couldn't miss tall, grey Robert Maynard Hutchins in a neat-fitting brown top coat and pearl grey Homburg. The important people mounted the platform and the photographers started taking pictures...
...poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France...
...only human over here," said Manager Coming, when asked if there would be phones for all with the completion of the new office. "September will be one of our bus lost months with the return of Harvard and M.I.T. students from their summer vacations, and with the publication of our 1948 directory...
...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...