Word: subway
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...