Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boom-Harvard Hall is striking the hour. The instructor goes placidly on for one-two-three minutes, until the Sever bell jangles twice. The student goes back to his room, collects his suitcase and overcoat and sprints for the subway. Just twenty minutes to make the train at South Station! In the station he is informed politely but firmly that the train has left your watch is slow...
...Atlanta, Ga., contrary to his custom, Mayor Walker arrived six hours ahead of schedule. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr., golfer-lawyer, and Major John Sanford Cohen, editor of the Atlanta Journal, went to the station to arouse the Mayor from his green-pajama sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, made lofty speeches and pleased his guests so well that the powerful Atlanta Constitution said in an editorial next day: "Tammany as an organization may have its detractors, but the men of Tammany are Democrats of the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools. They are not everlastingly chasing after...
Through the lovely, verdant park of Cotroceni, at Bucharest, a pair of steel rails curve in and up to the Palace of Dowager Queen Marie. When a royal train draws nigh it can chuff conveniently into a trig, small station only a few score yards from the palace door. Last week came the train of Her Majesty Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, daughter of Marie of Rumania...
Down to the station, last week, romped His Majesty Mihai I, aged six, King of Rumania. He was expecting his cousin, Crown Prince Peter of Jugoslavia, aged four. In the mind of His Majesty there lurked an innocent and hospitable design to kiss His Royal Highness...
...Royal & Presidential party swept up from the station and through the Brandenburg Gate, a crowd of some 30,000 saw with amazement that the last motor in the procession was bright red and driven by Friedrick Wilhelm, onetime German Crown Prince & Crown Prince of Prussia. Uninvited, he had merrily slipped up behind. Prudent, he soon turned down a side street amid scattered cheers and more booes...