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Word: subway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable intoxication, trying to stand up in a crowded subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

When interviewed on the subway en route to Cambridge around 9:30 o'clock Saturday night, Isabel Jenifer Esmeralda Harlow admitted that she was "very proud" of her "Daddy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Very Proud" of Her "Daddy," Isabel Harlow Confesses "He's Pretty Tired" | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Across the aisle, quite lost and unnoticed in the subway crowd, sat her "Daddy", Richard Cresson Harlow, discussing with Skip Stahley and a few other cronies the great victory over Yale that afternoon. He carried his usual black satchel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Very Proud" of Her "Daddy," Isabel Harlow Confesses "He's Pretty Tired" | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Will Saltonstall Landis on top of Curley like a Bushnell of Wood," was the first question I asked the conductor on the subway last night. "The Democratic party," the conductor answered as he took my dime, "will poll a heavy vote in South Carolina, Georgie, Florida, Alabama, and Texas. The situation is not clear in some other states...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: Huey Sees Saltonstall, Quinn, Lehman Breaking Tape Today | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Most of Chicago's subway schemes have proposed leveling the elevated loop and the uneven scale of property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Chicago Underground | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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