Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otherwise, a snack at Liggetts, or--in case of a particularly heavy date--supper at a Hayes-Bick, is gratefully accepted by any girl. Taxis are generally never mentioned, and the day of the convertible coupe is gone. Girls now condescend to walk to a movie or take the subway. A ride in a battered old back is an extravagance...
...Seven months ago a peculiar odor coming from his Paris house attracted unwanted attention. Inside, police found the remains of 50 to 60 persons, bits of their clothing and jewelry. At first they could not find Dr. Petiot, but last fortnight they did. He was waiting for a subway in the Saint-Mande station. Dr. Petiot wore the uniform of an F.F.I captain...
...years ago the word underground, if it meant anything to Americans, meant the London subway. Now every child knows the meaning of the term which was first coined by the 19th-Century Russian revolutionists (podpolye, under the field), then seeped into German (unterirdisch), worked its way slowly westward...
...First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand in 1931 and Shutout...
...thing which in the subway is called congestion is highly esteemed in the night spots as intimacy." ¶ "A cool statistical outline of what America had to offer . . . would never have filled the emigrant ships. A rainbow was needed-a land where the roads were paved with gold, where every man was as good as everybody else, where every man's native-born son had a fine chance to be elected President. No colonization without misrepresentation...