Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This plan," says Mr. Holden, "would bring about reduction in rates. Better service could be rendered by the roads, and delay at junction points would be eliminated. Car supply to shippers would be more flexible, and a beter general standard of service would be maintained on all lines...
...gets in touch with Hugh Willis, official of the Mine Workers' Local, and tries to arrange an honorable surrender with immunity. Willis replies evasively, but " thinks it can be arranged." The defenders are telephoned and told to wait for a " white flag and a union official motor car." They wait until sunup, but neither flag or motor appear. So they raise their own white flag, and trusting the shouts of the union miners promising them immunity, surrender in a body-45 strikebreakers and 25 mine guards. Down the dusty road they march, prisoners, promised immunity according to the ethics...
...Room up forward in the car...
...novel or of any other form of creative literature is less keenly felt during those periods in life or history in which general events stimulate the imaginative faculties by their very nature. We have seen this ever since the twentieth century began. We had first the motor car with its tremendous enhancement of life. Every man who took a twenty or thirty mile spin had his imaginative range broadened. He had less need to sit by the fire and read an imaginative book. By the time the motor car had ceased to be a novelty, the Great War came...
...another medium is taxed less stringently. At the same time, there will always be a place for the novel in literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...