Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general appearance the famous Charles Dickens, who saw him in 1842, wrote of his "mild and pleasant appearance" and his "remarkably unaffected, gentlemanly agreeable manners" and added "in his whole carriage and demeanor he became his station singularly well...
Before Candidate Foster was half through his speech, the broadcasting station (WEAF) which was transmitting his sentiments received ten telephone calls demanding that he be shut off at once. But Candidate Foster was interfered with in no way. He finished, happily of his own accord, well within his allotted time. The Communist campaign...
...small brown beast, spry as a witch and ugly as a gargoyle, was perched on the top of a freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...
...many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position was given...
...Haven, Conn., May 30--Breaking loose from all civic and college restraint in a spectacular celebration of "Bottle Night" last evening, nearly 300 Yale undergraduates stormed street-cars and the police-station in the center of New Haven and necessitated a riot-call to restore order in the city...