Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When you reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
...They're specially bad when I ride in the subway, doctor...
Something Borrowed. Blonde, sassy Julia McCarthy, "Nancy Randolph" to readers of the New York Daily News, did not let her subway public down. Borrowing luscious details from the London Mirror account, she told how the happy newly weds headed for their bedroom (pink sheets) at Broadlands and how at a stair landing, "Philip looked down and put his arm around his bride's slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess...
...Siqueiros gradually formulated a theory to support his furious conviction. He found backers for a short-lived magazine, Vida Americana, in which he fired the opening gun of a fight to make art as useful, well-engineered and open to the public as an up-to-date subway system. "Now," wrote Siqueiros disgustedly, looking at the art around him, "we draw silhouettes with pretty colors...