Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullmans. When the conductor came along, Lawyer Davis at first refused to hand over his ticket unless given a seat. He surrendered when the conductor threatened to throw him off. All the way to Manhattan, for nearly three hours. Lawyer Davis stood in the aisle. Then, furious, "leg-sore" and worn down from the strain," he hustled to his office, looked up the law. He found that in New York railroads are required to provide "sufficient accommodation." In the Public Service Commission law he found that "common carriers shall provide such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate...
...sort of fluke. Maybe the track was so slippery that he didn't dare to run his fastest. And the same seems to be the case with Bill O'Connor and Al Hanlon who were beaten by Jim Lightbody Fresh runner (fresh is against Crimson form, but we're sore at him. What's he trying to do, get elected captain or something...
...suggested Fisher Museum of Forestry. All very intricate, but not as much as the work of the men in the studios. Some forming trees of fine copper wire as they look at scale drawings. The needles of the conifers and leaves of the deciduous trees are of sheet copper. Sore at heart that I am so empty-headed on nature. Watch the workmen attach the needles and leaves to a wire, first twisting each into boughs. Many single wires are twisted for the bare branches of other trees. Hardwood trees. One man making figures of wax for the big model...
...have bled so sore of that...
...fall asleep in the big green chair and come dreams of springtime and zephyrs and lilacs and green pastures and awake cramped and sore but Madame has abandoned her seige for the nonce and my head is lighter. And up to call for my stiff-front shirt from the launderer, and to Kirkland House tonight to see John Gay there enacted his play "Three Hours After Marriage...