Word: streetcar
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...citizens than ever before will ponder the hippopotamus, resting on his belly in the mud, will regard the hooded cobra, the shuffling, suddenly acrobatic chimpanzee, the reflective giraffe, the plaintively greedy bears. U.S. zoos expect the largest crowds in history. Reason: all zoos can be reached by bus, streetcar or A-cards...
Unlike younger clubs, the Kubs and Kids have little holdout trouble. The players rush to practice year after year. In this year's lineups there is only one former big leaguer: Kub Catcher Fred ("Jake") Ross, retired streetcar maintenance man from Rockville Center, N.Y., who once played with the New York Metropolitans (a forerunner of the Yankees). One of the league's leading sluggers, who plays second base for the Kubs, is 83-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of the great baseballing Roger.* The Kids' most eminent character is 77-year-old Elmer Veitch, onetime North Dakota...
...Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico, the letter "j" is pronounced "h," and that...
...broadcast went on; so did the party. Members had planned to make Rationer Henderson ride a streetcar to the party, stand waiting at two transfer points; they no longer had the heart and called a taxi instead. To most of Local Board 234.3 their skits now sounded a little flat. But if the ex-Price Boss was not having a fine time he never once...
...Finnish fight dragged on, Stalin decided to stop short of total victory. His "recognition" of a "Finnish People's Government" had made him, says Author Scott, "an object of ridicule for [Soviet] streetcar conductors." But most important of all, the invasion of Finland had revealed "considerable deadwood" in the mighty Red Army. In short, Round Two had been "a grotesque blunder" diplomatically; an invaluable proving ground militarily...