Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helpers. In Washington, D.C., when a streetcar conductor got off briefly to inspect a switch, playful passengers kept him off, took turns playing conductor along the route for 45 minutes before the motorman found...
...Motorman Ford, who is already looking beyond the horizons of World War II, remarked philosophically: "It just takes time to straighten these things out." What he said to himself was nobody's business...
...Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
...night last week a man standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn slipped and fell on the track, unconscious, just as a train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
...motorman, white-faced and trembling, fearing he had killed not one man but three, raced back. The platform was a bedlam of pushing, screaming people. A voice, embarrassed and gruff, came up from the tracks: "We're all right. Get the train out of here." Inch by inch the train was pulled out, the two rescuers heaved their charge, unconscious but barely scratched, to the platform, then they tried to sneak off into the crowd, found they had to leave their names with the police. One was Frank Serrano, a short, husky longshoreman. The other: William O'Dwyer...