Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...
...years ago the road was bankrupt, made so by the panic of 1893. A foreclosure sale wiped out hobbling debts; a new management revitalized it. Someone with good persuasive powers brought the late Edward Payson Ripley (1845-1920), to be its president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present...
Then back to the road again, on foot, riding the bars, and occasionally even "riding the cushions." In search of-the Jack of Diamonds? Ace of Clubs? More women? Experience of a "heap o' towns" indicates that "the most fastest, mo' freer women" are to be found in New Orleans, where "they give you clothes and liquor an' all the lovin' you want, an' when you go to leave have all sorts grievin' fits ... then writes you most sweetest letters man ever read...
...first road performance will take place tonight at the Academy of Music of Northampton. Sunday the cast will travel westward, and on Monday it will give its second road performance at the Eighth Street Theatre in Chicago...