Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall River Line. Last week Joe Martin Day turned out a boisterous success. From his home in North Attleboro, Martin drove through streets decked with bunting to the City Hall, where a huge picture of him had been erected over the door. The stores had closed for the occasion and the Democratic city administration had given its employees the day off. A crowd of 5.000 waited in the drizzling rain. After his speech, Joe shook hands with everybody he could reach, and called everyone he could by his first name. He knew a lot of first names...
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When all the guests had gone, Joe went back to the kitchen and autographed the aprons of the waitresses and dishwashers, then drove off for his summer home in Sagamore on Cape Cod. Other guests drove back into Fall River. Opposite the City Hall, the sign outside Granite Block Spa now said with bare coherence: "Joe Martin...
...play on the old steamer service plying between New York and Fall River, which ceased operations in 1937. Things of grandeur in their prime, in their latter days the old boats still aroused the affectionate exasperation of a large public. One frequent passenger cracked that the Priscilla was held together by the strip of red carpet in her main saloon...