Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first met Mr. Simpson, then married to a previous wife, at the home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted to sit up and show themselves they sat up screaming with laughter. To Manhattan reporters Mrs. Raffray had denied recently that it was her ambition...
Still Life, a compassionate study of two middle-aged lovers who begin and end their hopeless affair in a station restaurant...
Early that evening in Washington's Union Station, Attorney General Homer Cummings and RF Chairman Jesse Jones said farewell to him. and he was off to the Pan-American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires. From that hour, time failed to march on as rapidly as the seasons. It was an early spring next morning at Charleston, warm May next evening in the Gulf Stream, sweltering summer four days later at Trinidad. For Franklin Roosevelt was off over the rim of the calendar...
Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
...RETURN OF THE WEED-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2). A cycle of six lyric short stories dealing with the tenants of some desolate New Mexican ruins-an abandoned mission, a crumbling hacienda, deserted farm houses, a filling station- making a slight but effective book, well-illustrated with lithographs by Peter Kurd...