Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think they will...
...airplane quotations represent, in most cases, a 10 per cent reduction from twice the one-way fare. There is no reduction on round trip railway fares east of Chicago. The Pullman prices given are twice the one-way price for lower berths. There is no reduction for round trip. Upper berths are 80 per cent of the price of lowers...
...past ages, and that it is still changing. Many would confess a belief that it changes for the better. But breathes there the man who has not, at some time or other, wished for a return of the ancient and honorable custom of vigorously expressing distaste at the fare offered audiences by some of our present-day stage entertainers...
...imposing tomes of Professor Morison's history of Harvard appeal too ominous, if you are interested only in the amusing side of Harvard's 300 years, if you were involved last year in the Lowell House dining fare rebellion, then "Dicts and Riots" deserves a special place in your bookcase. Mr. Bevis has written an analysis of Harvard's history from 1636 to 1936 from the illuminating point of view of its students' alimentary canals...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...