Word: streetcar
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Cary Grant on Hollywood: "Chivalry has no place on the streetcar marked Fame. . . . Your fellow passengers are intent on gouging out your eyes. ... If a woman gets in your way, correct Hollywood etiquette is to slug her before she slugs...
...Division of the Defense Savings Department awed her. Said she: "We are in the process of organizing and we are simply going to sell millions of bonds when we get started. I'm sure you realize that even the upper classes cannot do all of the work. A streetcar conductor's wife is sometimes as smart as a woman of my position. . . . Everybody will have a part in helping me with this tremendous...
...street plans were laid. Old women, small children and useless people were evacuated. "The breath of the front is strongly felt here," wrote Tass, official news agency. "A new line of defenses is being constructed. . . . People of the most varied professions have taken to the spade-women, weavers, streetcar drivers, students and teachers." Moscow changed within a week from capital into fortress...
...became alarmed at the dust piling up in such world-famed centers of Philadelphic culture as the Franklin Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Observing that adult-education clubs flourished in Philadelphia suburbs, he launched a campaign. He put circulars on every Philadelphia doorstep, posters in every Philadelphia streetcar, inviting one & all to join a new Junto and gather in the museums for fun and learning. Members would attend ten-week courses (at $2 a course) on such subjects as art, cartooning, music, nature, airplanes, contract bridge, writing, gardening, philosophy, dancing. To teach them, he got top-notch instructors...
There was so much of importance in abeyance that waiting for the little things -for the factory whistle, for the streetcar, for Pravda with its reassurances-had be come almost intolerable...