Word: railroad
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Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, in a strange country. In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly...
...phone. I called the Cambridge Public Works department and patiently explained how Harvard students often go to Fresh Pond. I explained how they take the T to Alewife, wait for a green light and use the crosswalk over the Alewife Brook Parkway, walk across the bridge that spans the railroad tracks and then, with the movie theaters in sight, they, ahem, scamper down the hill...
...sitting on a railroad track, drunk and tottering. One says to the other, "I'm going to buy this railroad one day." The other responds, "I'm going to sell it, so have a drink...
...moral according to Jackson? "Until the railroad owner's at the table, it's nothing but a joke," he said...
Perez Balladares answers that the railroad was in poor repair and losing money at the time it was given to Panama. He thinks Washington wanted the venture to fail, "so they could say, 'See, they are not capable of running a railroad; how can they run a canal...