Word: omnibuses
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...second case contains Cruikshank's "Omnibus" a series of illustrations and caricatures of various scenes in contemporary travelling conditions. This is in the form of a series of pamphlets making up the whole book and published at separate times. There are several original drawings used in the work...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, set out from London for Berlin with Baron Ashfield, famed London subway and omnibus tycoon. A suspicious circumstance was that both peers stated that their mission would be to play many a round of golf-in Germany of all places...
...loved the men of cities?New York, New Orleans, Washington. He loved to drive a Broadway omnibus. He loved to listen to the stevedores on the Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...
Even 100 years later, with a greatly "modernized" system of transportation, the trip to Boston was probably more interesting than the short ride of today. In 1840, the omnibus used to start from Willards Tavern, according to accounts a worthy pub which stood where the carbarn is today, and it took an hour, when the roads were in good condition, to get to Boston. In the Spring, when the roads were thick and deep with mud, it was a common experience for the passengers to climb out of their coach and lift the wheels out of the mire. The service...
...Fifty years ago, there was an omnibus horse-car leaving Brattle Streetor Boston every 15 minutes during the day. "The fare was 15 cents a trip. They were tretty friaid affaris in the winter, and had the floors covered with rushes to keep the passengers from freezing their feet during the long jolting through the Square out to Watertown...