Word: horsecars
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...year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers, taught Unitarian Sunday school in Minneapolis, driven a horsecar in Chicago (where he was fired for letting his horse plod past waiting passengers while he read Euripides...
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
Harvard Square was the center of a lazy village in those days. The most modern convenience was a horsecar that left hourly for Boston, carrying undergraduates in search of entertainment. The administration frowned at the growing popularity of trips to Boston, but there was not much the officials could do about...
...were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
...Lapham, who has pledged himself to one nonpartisan term in office, made 70 speeches in three weeks. On a newsman's suggestion, he began calling up housewives at random, explaining the proposal to them in five-minute chats. On the Saturday before election he drove an old-fashioned horsecar, drawn by two white horses, for a two-mile trip along Market Street. The car was followed by a modern bus from which a loudspeaker blared: "I've been waiting for a streetcar all the livelong...