Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rosoff, millionaire subway builder and longtime contractor in Latin America, on frolic at Saratoga, N.Y., asked a nightclub singer for his favorite song, "South America Take It Away," and got action. An Argentine visitor objected. Sam, a nimble 63, put 200 pounds behind the punch, knocked him cold...
...bound copies of a local newspaper (which went back 20 years but were of no use because they weren't indexed). Somebody contributed an encyclopedia, and the Public Library was close by. On closing nights the staff carted the usable part of the morgue by subway to the printer's and checked late copy while the issue went to press. As late as 1929 an office boy with a dolly could move it in half an hour-and sometimes...
Much of Rhubarb's humor has the delicate bouquet of a subway rest room, but in spots the book is good slapstick satire and funny in a broad Broadway way. By the end, with the help of a Runyonesque assortment of low characters, including an outfielder and a lady wrestler, Author Smith somehow manages to make it into something resembling a novel. Cat lovers may have their doubts...
These concerts will continue nightly, except Sunday, throughout the summer, with Arthur Fiedler conducting the 85-piece symphony in varied programs of classical and semi-classical music. The only price of admission is the subway fare from Harvard Square to Charles...
...Patterson could understand the issue of the nickel subway, and the fact that two battleships were better than one. But larger facts were beyond him: facts like the world's oneness. He resented the spread of Communism but was entirely willing to let the whole of Europe go Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress...