Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dahl's latest is full of crudely, shrewdly drawn glimpses of Back Bay folk and subway riders, the people who feed the Boston Common pigeons and the suburban firemen who are forever rescuing treed cats. Some of the cartoons are local jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank...
Most of its students go to classes by subway, and one of its off-campus centers of undergraduate life is an Automat. If you want rah-rah, Manhattan's City College (the full, unrelieved title is The City College of the College of the City of New York*) is no place...
Thirty minutes by subway and bus can easily consummate Miss Bergwall's desires. Park Street, Kenmore station, and the bus to Pilgrim road mark the way to the Simmons seraglio...
...would soon be on sale again in Germany. Later that evening I made my newsdealer swear to save TIME for me for the rest of my life. Today the familiar cover of TIME glowed from Berlin newsstands, and in a few hours all copies were sold out. In the subway I entered into conversation with perfect strangers simply because they carried a copy of TIME under an arm, or were reading it. It was as though we were old friends...
...like to work with people." Enough people with something to do or say about the Village shoot in and out of his office in the administration building (which still looks exactly like an Army administration building) every day to make happy the most gregarious person this side of a subway crush. To Mr. Taft belong all the problems of the Village. He is, if not the mayor, most certainly the town father...