Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 40 hours, Mr. Coolidge left his hotel suite, descended to the station. Walking on the platform to his noon train, he confided: "Well ... I just came down ... to see a few publishers and a few friends. I have been trying to get back to private life and you fellows [newsgatherers] will have to help...
...Griffin, a Catholic couple who lived in a frame house near the railroad station of Texarkana, Tex., sent their daughter Corinne to the Sacred Heart Convent in New Orleans. When the girl, unanimously elected Queen of the Mardi Gras, went to California to work in the movies, her mother went along, let her change her name to Griffith. Now Corinne Griffith makes $500,000 a year and is said to have the most beautiful back in the world. She lives in an English house in Beverly Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver...
...easy for the new Earl, either. He had taken the Trimmers along to help him out, but at that there was no car at the station to meet them, and the crowd on the platform did not seem to like the checked caps that he and his boy, now Viscount Perceval, wore. Also, the dowager Countess of Egmont was sitting in the home that had been hers for so many years and would, so reporters told Fred Perceval, refuse to move...
...main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations. The village, including houses built when Peter Stuyvesant peg-legged it along the leafy Bouwerie, is to be razed by May 1. The only Eastview buildings to be spared in Rockefeller Land are: "Low-erre," summer home of Chainstorekeeper James Butler; the Westchester County poorhouse; the Tarrytown pumping station...
...knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...