Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
Last month Manhattan's Tammany Hall was down in the dumps. Its official mayoralty candidate, Royal Samuel Copeland, the personal & private selection of Tammany Chieftain James J. Dooling, was by no means acceptable to many an old-line Tammany leader. Worse still, Tammany had been let down by the leaders of New York City's four other boroughs, who had selected an opposition candidate in the person of Grover Aloysius Whalen, thus diminishing Tammany's otherwise fair chance of recovering the City Hall held for the last four years by Fusion Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, Aug. 2). Then...
...that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...
...avoid hack work but not enough to become a dilettante. Gibbon's last blessing in disguise (for history's sake, of course, says the biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled by boys for all he cared." He was now free to settle down abroad...