Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foyer are brass rails and stiff shirted attendants to keep the waiting people in place. There is no standing in line two or three blocks up a windy street far from the box-office. One waits for seats just as he waits for a train in the Grand Central Station...
Quickly he stepped aboard a train for Paris. Arrived there, he exchanged osculations with Premier Painlevé, who met him at the station. He still remained publicly non-committal-not without reason. Within a few days he knew that he must present his report to the Cabinet Council, decide whether to praise or damn his handiwork before the Chamber and prepare to justify his negotiations before the national convention of the Radical Party at Nice. He had need to listen and to reflect. Meanwhile, three interesting statements were made by others...
Finally they were marshalled in the Pennsylvania Hotel and again in the Pennsylvania station, and Senator McKinley, President of the U. S. section of the Union, got them aboard a special train. It was an unusual train, several baggage cars, three diners, and the rest day coaches. (Congress appropriated $50,000 for entertainment, which was not enough to pay for parlor cars...
Herr Stresemann, for his part, had little enough with which to parry gracefully the Russian's arguments, such as they were. While his train for Locarno stood waiting at the station, he could only assure M. Tchitcherin that Germany has often voiced her intention of not assuming any obligations under the League which might lead to Allied troops being mobilized across Germany to attack Russia; and that Germany would evade any Allied desire to impose such obligations upon her at Locarno, if she could. Meanwhile would not Minister Tchitcherin please be quiet, and accept for his country...
Around a trunk in the Union Station, Toledo, crowded porters, reporters and detectives. With left hands they held their noses. With right hands they struggled awkwardly to open a "mystery trunk, which stank in a manner to indicate that it might contain matter for the strong stomachs of yellow journalism. Then, with a final "Right." Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar. Out rolled several dozen heads of cabbage. The trunk, emptied, was held for its owner...