Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese. Factories were set ablaze, the luxurious Japanese Naval Club, the Japanese Consulate and Consul General's residence were blasted to the ground. Scores of Chinese, trapped in the dynamited areas, were killed. Reservoirs were demolished but Father Jacquinot reportedly persuaded the Chinese to spare the Hankow pumping station...
...fire started Les Nouvelles Galeries collapsed, its walls bursting outward and setting fire to the Hotel de Noailles across the street. Into the hotel rooms of the absent Premier and Foreign Minister rushed firemen who had just time to gather up their papers, later taken to a police station for safe keeping...
...calling into a void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...
...heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles in the caverns of his reversible for a pipe. Then the shiny, long, important train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between the sheets. It sight placidly once or twice, then relaxes. Vag stands beside the engine, his pipe glowing like a miniature...
They eat toast and tea together in the big, noisy grill at the station--as enjoyable a morning meal as Vag has partaken of in many a moon. She is in one of her most charming moods, chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years...