Word: streetcar
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...hardly pleasant. Hanging in six main galleries were some 800 brutal black & white engravings depicting assassinations, street accidents, atrocities, nightmares, scandals and conflagrations. Eufemio Martinez Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies...
Freddie Kuh wanted to be a newspaper man "from the time I quit wanting to be a streetcar conductor." At the University of Chicago "I ran the college paper and studied billiards." He was in Vienna in 1919 when the London Daily Herald made him its Balkans reporter. United Press got him four years later, sent him to Moscow and Berlin. When the Nazis made it hot for him after he had reported their Reichstag arson plot as just that, he moved on to London. Marshall Field lured...
...numerous hills and make virtually a year's living in Rio's four carnival days, clambered and skidded down from their hilltops singing a brand-new crop of carnival songs and dances. Lacking jalopies to parade in, they hung three-deep to the sides of streetcars, beating out wild rhythms on their tambourines and shouting the new tunes that would soon pulsate in all the samba palaces of Brazil. Usually the streetcar motormen got the idea and joined in, clanging out the rhythm with their bells. One song caught on faster than all the rest and ended...
...civic-minded Washingtonian is doomed by circumstance to be a thwarted, unhappy man. By geography he is disfranchised-he has no voice in managing his 69,245 square miles of handsomely landscaped bedlam. He is plagued by starlings, 10? streetcar fares, a water system that floods basements even after a drizzle, a street-cleaning system that depends mainly on the wind, a police force loaded with the castoffs of Congressional patronage-and some of the worst slums...
...effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of the brake and '"exhilarator,'" is nudged so far over by "Share-the-ride-Schwartz" and other multiplying members of the pool that finally '"I'm standin' on da corner waitin' for a streetcar...