Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hopping, Dr. Patrick followed his leader into a Pullman filled with hushed excitement. He was led to a man violently ill in a drawing-room. As Dr. Patrick bent forward to begin an examination, the long train trembled and jolted. It was moving forward...
When they descended from their trains in the grimy, shacklike Union Depot they found one W. H. French, pullman conductor of South Euclid, Ohio, singing to them a song he had composed. It went: "Welcome to you, welcome to you; Christian Endeavor, welcome to you!" The visitors were glad...
Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...
...Curtiss, Chairman, Miss Harriet Hayward; H. R. Wood, Miss Jane Richards; Henry Ware, Miss Isabelle Lothrop; W. E. Soule, Miss Elizabeth Pullman; K. B. Harding, Miss Dorothea Cheney; J. W. Hurlbut, Miss Marion DeLay; Howard Slade, 2nd, Miss Anne Tudor...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...