Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representatives are hammish on the capital's main social stage. That is why Washington is full of side shows. The form of the main performance is reproduced faithfully on a small, stuffy scale in the lobbies and "parlors" of the inexpensive hotels near Washington's Union Station. Seldom are these second-rate social troopers seen in Northwest Washington after 6 p. m. When a second-rate Congressman does scale the heights, he usually does something gauche-like the Senator who had himself flash-lighted as he entered Secretary Mellon's home to dine...
...Norway, once a schoolteacher, now a William ("Big Bill") Hale Thompson political supporter, asked for and received "free entry" for a trip to Panama. In January, 1928, he re-entered the U. S. through Key West, his six trunks passing without inspection by customs agents. At the Jacksonville railroad station a baggageman traced a liquor trickle to a broken bottle in one of these trunks. Federal agents seized the trunks, removed the liquor, shipped them to Washington where, upon claiming them, their owner was identified...
...long train chugs into a little station on the outskirts of the Big City. It comes to a stop, comes to life. Men pop out of its doors. In a moment there is amazing activity. Torches held in brawny hands provide light. Neighing horses are driven in dozens down shadowy ramps. Behind them come lumbering elephants, single file. Men lift down great, gaudy cages. A flickering light reveals the prisoners-lions, bears, monkeys, the population of the Ark itself. And men and women-tiny men and tiny women, tall men and tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed...
...used by the Hasty Pudding Club for its production, "Fireman, Save my Child" will start from an unrevealed place on Church Street and go up to the Square. After going around the rotunda the engine will proceed by way of the college yard to the "station house" on Holyoke St. The apparatus is an exact reproduction of the original engine used by the Catamounts. R. McH. Chilson '31, J. C. Fiske '30, J. B. Garrison '31, E. L. Gates '30, Barrett Hoyt '30, and Pliny Jewell, Jr. '31, who will be garbed in the costumes of the "Fire B' hoys...
...team will leave Sunday at 1.05 o'clock from South Station for Williamsburg, Va. where it opposes William and Mary on Monday April 8. The remainder of the Southern schedule follows...