Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conductor Kennedy was born in Albion, N. Y., but he never met another native of that countryside, born 27 years before, with whose works he was to become so closely associated?the late George M. Pullman. The smile on his long, gentle face will grow shy if you ask him to tell about all the bishops, actresses, pugilists, governors, bankers and U. S. Presidents (all since Grover Cleveland's first term) that he has conducted and known. Off duty he lives in a small house under old elms at Rochester, N. Y. One son is a plumber; another a Baltimore...
...valet service, ladies' lounge and maid service, shower baths, free stenographer, observation car telephone (until departure), and market and sport reports, travelers now notice that white enamel is replacing nickel on plumbing fixtures, that upper berths are more private and accessible. These features, of course, are to the Pullman Co.'s credit, as is much else about the Century...
...Warner's aptness with a billiard cue is doubtless partly due to his health. Never has he needed a doctor since the hour of his birth. His aptness at taking cues from passengers is unquestionably due to the 38 years he has spent at that major study of all Pullman porters, Human Nature...
...Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...rival sleeping car, the Mann "Boudoir Car" with sleeping compartments set transverse to the car length as in European railway cars, was operated between Boston and Manhattan in 1883; was expensive; could not endure before Pullman Co. aggressiveness...