Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores had been badly injured; that the Presidential yacht Mayflower had been blown from her moorings...
...Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, throngs milled. The face that President Coolidge looked for was that of William Cameron Sproul (Sprole), onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sproul is president of Philadelphia's Union League Club. This evening he was the President's host...
...nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals in Times Square in New York. It has been computed that 100,000 days are lost at that point every year, the suggested remedy being an underground passage between Times Square and the Grand Central Station...
...Stories. Wm. Leeds, the peddler in Last Night, is not merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles...
After leaving the bridge continue to the traffic circle. Here turn left and continue to the next two road intersections where a right turn is made in each case, and continue through Bear Mountain Park, over The Seven Lakes Drive, through Tuxedo, Sloatsburg, Ramapo, Suffern, Oakland, Pompton Lakes, Pompton Station, Pompton Plains, Pequannlock, Lincoln Park, Towaco, Boonton, Parrisippany, Littleton, Morris Plains, Morristown, Bernardsville, Far Hills, Bedminster, Somerville, Harlingen, Princeton, Lawrenceville, Trenton, Parkland, Oakford and Trappe into Philadelphia, the destination...