Word: daycoach
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...Trappists came to densely Protestant Georgia by daycoach from the largest of the three Trappist monasteries in the U.S. - Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Ky. All were bearded, except the abbot (he alone can shave), the youngest was 30, the oldest 56. They arrived at night in torrents of rain, went to bed on the floor of the large two-story, white brick barn...
...annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contests. It disapproves of the programs. The Intercollegiate finals will be held this summer in Chicago as part of the World's Fair celebration. Pomona's college song, "Torch Bearers," will be sung as a tribute to the 30 boys who traveled by daycoach from Claremont, Calif, to St. Louis last spring to win first prize (TIME, April...
Clanking along through Indiana in a daycoach in the early 1890's, the conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra removed his cuff and jotted down on it a tune. A young journalist, who was spending his vacation traveling with the conductor and his orchestra on tour, asked for a copy of the air. At a hotel that evening the musician scribbled the song on a piece of notepaper, gave it to his admirer. The journalist liked it, learned to play it, rendered it so often that his friends later called it his song...
...journalist, now editor, had occasion to listen to the premiere of an operetta which his friend the composer had written. Surprised and delighted was he to discover that the melody written on the daycoach was the hit of the show, called "Kiss Me Again." It is still a good song. Its composer, Victor Herbert, is dead. But the lady who first introduced it, Fritzi Scheff (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929), still sings it. Last winter she took the production from which the song came-Mille. Modiste-on tour. And the journalist is still well and happy. He is General Manager Kent...
...just the sort of argument that one would expect to hear if an average U. S. daycoach should be stalled between stations and a better-than-average red-faced Irish-American started talking loudly...