Word: horsecars
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...with wisecracks about the Jews and Blacks; Irish moved out of the tenements on the east side of town; and in 1861 Harvard gave an honorary degree to Bishop J. Fitzpatrick, the first priest so honored. the desegregation was not quite complete, however. In 1880, Cambridge still had parallel horsecar lines--one which took the Irish laborers to work, and one for "proper gentlemen...
...horsecar swayed and rattled down Fifth Avenue. At the car's center a small potbellied stove gave off insufficient heat, and mephitic fumes. On the floor was straw as Insulation. My fellow passengers were mostly men, mostly bearded, mostly potbellied like the stove. In fact, saving the desperate poor, everyone in New York is overweight: it seems to be the style...
...going in 1947, when New Haven decided to abandon trolleys. A handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...
Died. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, 54, onetime British debutante who gave up sports-car racing for horse breeding, in her lifetime spent close to $10 million (from a horsecar and trolley fortune inherited from her grandfather William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet), saddled the winners of 1,532 races, including the peerless Golden Miller, winner of the Grand National in 1934; of a heart attack; in Chalfont St. Giles, England...
...Belle of New York (MGM) lets Fred Astaire dance on just about everything from a horsecar to thin air. In fact, the picture itself is mostly thin air. It is a Technicolor trifle in which Astaire, a turn-of-the-century playboy, falls head over dancing heels in love with Vera-Ellen, a mission worker who also dances. Revivalist Vera-Ellen saves Sinner Astaire, but not all their fast stepping can quite save a plodding picture. This pretty period piece is punctuated with a few chuckles provided by Marjorie Main as a Park Avenue dowager and Keenan Wynn as Astaire...