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...regular omnibus service was established from Harvard Square to Mount Auburn Cemetery. The opening of a Watertown Branch Railroad depot at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Belmont Streets the next year further spurred development...
...mother. She would try to stop him. The night before he left, Chen took over from her as usual at the noodle stall he helped her run. After she went home, he quickly closed up the stall and made his way into Fuzhou, 15 miles away. At the main railroad station, the snakeheads were waiting for him, just as they said they would...
...Before the Supreme Court ruling and the opening of the club to men, the Chilton kept three entryways. One front door on Commonwealth Ave. for members only, another for the members and their guests off to the side and a staff entrance in back. Soon after the club opened, railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams ’32 was barred from ever entering the club again after shoving his way through the front entrance before declaring: “I never use side entrances.” Husbands have always been invited...
...structure of the clubs, says Shiverick. It allowed for the formation of partnerships with limited liability: each partner would not have to risk his whole fortune if disaster struck in the case of, say bankruptcy or lawsuits. In short, the corporation could be used not only to finance a railroad, but also, an orchestra, an orphanage, a polo club equipped with an imported, famous French chef or, as Shiverick notes, a “caucus room.” Thus, business, charitable and social interests all merged into a giant Brahmin front at the turn of the century. That front...
Each question was more disappointing than the last. The one about receiving "Social Security or Railroad Retirement" confused me. Telling about my apartment's flush-toilet capacity has clearly lost some of the bragging rights it held in the original 1790 Census. And that "How many bedrooms do you have?" question really rubbed it in my face...