Word: streetcar
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...Hollywood pranksters started a streetcar token chain to promote streetcar travel and a button chain ("In return you will receive 15,625 buttons for your wife to sew on your clothes...
...Southern belle, beleaguered by Yankee admirers from a nearby training camp, loses her heart to an ex-streetcar-conductor, recovers from her infatuation when she sees him in mufti...
...York contains more Irish Catholics than any other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...
...Elizabeth Geise flew from Seattle to Newark, unaccompanied, on a plane of United Air Lines. From her home in Fairbanks, Alaska, she had reached Seattle by boat. Thoroughly unimpressed by her transcontinental flight, she told astonished newshawks: "First thing I'm going to do is ride in a streetcar, because I've never been in one. Then I'm going to ride in the subway. Then I want to ride in an automobile. . . . Then I'm going to ride in an express elevator...
...days before the ultimatum expired a shattering blast wrecked the important power station of Opponitz in Lower Austria, stopped every streetcar in Vienna for an hour until another power station could be hooked up to serve the capital. Minor bombs were popping all over Austria. To the railway station sped Chancellor, frau and children. Their train snorted toward Italy. At the frontier Chancellor Dollfuss, a pious believer in Providence, got off and prepared to go back to Vienna...