Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending days, or weeks in a convict prison, involving a considerable amount of hardship, to receive, at the end of the period, a certain pecuniary' reward. In the past education could be compared to effort of this sort, but its modern version is more like a ride in a Pullman car, with only the fare to pay and a tip for the porter at the end of the journey. Of course, paying the fare is sometimes an inconvenience, but most things have to be paid for, even the unreturned shirts in last week's laundry. Education still requires a certain...
...business world in recent years to add the subtle personal touch to its work. From banks to bakeries, and now to busses,--the human element is a goal which all strive to attain. Witness the brass plate by the grated window, when you cash a check or buy a Pullman ticket, which informs you whether it be Mr. Stevenson or Mr. Warren with whom you are doing business! All this shows a change in the state of mind of the employer towards the employee. Instead of regarding him as a commodity which he can use at will...
...work--though his speech, too, is excellent, and his rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance to abject terror proceeds by subtle and orderly degrees, and carries the audience along in cumulative terror. In the first act, a dialogue between the pullman-porter, emperor and Smithers, a while trader on his island empire, is all that makes up the action; yet in it the whole exposition is stealthily unfolded at the same time that the atmosphere of terror is being created. Beginning with the emperor's nocturnal fight, author and actor carry...
...agent of the Boston and Albany Railroad will be at the Cooperative Store every day from 9.30 A. M. to 4.30 P. M. during the next few days selling reservations and Pullman accommodations over the Boston and Albany and New York Central lines. He will also be prepared to give detailed information to students concerning trains at Christmas time on any line...
...only right, then, that members of General Foch's party should have feared that the strenuous schedule of activities he has been following would seriously impair his health. When we hear that he has spent only four nights since his arrival in any other lodging than a Pullman car, we do not blame them for being anxious lest his preliminary activities tire him to the extent of making his attendance at the Conference unwise, if not impossible. We rejoice, therefore, to hear that the General shows few signs of strain, and has gained ten pounds since he landed in this...