Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Care." Eva herself was an old story by now, but this latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin...
Concert-goers may take the subway to Charles Station or drive there by way of Charles Street Bridge...
Manhattan Contractor Samuel R. Rosoff takes business wherever he can find it. Last week, "Subway Sam" returned from a beaming visit with ruthless Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Sam, who had his eye on a dam job in the Dominican state of Santiago, babbled chummily about the Benefactor. "He is sometimes called a dictator, but he's not," gushed Sam. "He's the most democratic man. Why, he had me to dinner with him at his home...
...wandered among the Houses, unashamedly liking the College scene, summertime-style. Harried-looking people in seersucker coats toiled toward the subway kiosk with leather bags, and gleaming convertibles scooted off eagerly along streets leading away from the Square, but Vag was content...
Died. Martin John Insull, 77, after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. In 1934 he was acquitted with brother Samuel (who died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station in 1938) of charges of embezzlement that allegedly caused the 1932 collapse of their fabulous $2 billion Middle West Utility Co. British subject Insull was subsequently deported to Canada, where, until his death, he lived in modest obscurity...