Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
Three o'clock the next morning his overcoat and hat were turned in at the Charles River Basin police station, reputedly found on the subway bridge. Monday, February 7, the body was found floating in the ice chop a half mile below the bridge...
...street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
...like Princeton. The average crop-haired Harvard youth will probably tell you with great condescension that this is due to Harvard's vast indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize Boston parties. Therefore they...
...prisons. Another Fusion minority member elected by the American Labor Party in The Bronx was bull-necked Michael J. Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland and still carries a bullet in his left hip. Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears...