Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of getting to the game: the subway to Park and thence to Kenmere Square does the trick, but getting back becomes an entirely different matter. It's less crowded to walk over to Mass. Avenue and grab the trolley back to Harvard...
...writing longhand clearly in a remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...
...absolute majority and run the city from top to bottom. They are predominantly anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and anti-New Deal. Most of it goes back to Father Coughlin's paper Social Justice, which was sold every Sunday in front of the churches and subway stations till it was suppressed...
...entering student officers are, in a qualified sense, Harvard men. This entails several responsibilities. No longer will you take the subway or tube over the Charles River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will...
...life they had no such trouble. The Norworths sing the new Thank You for the Dance in an empty theater, to an imaginary audience, get the idea for their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career by pretending to throw him over, but is last seen with him in triumphant Technicolor, smiling out of a harvest moon in Ziegfeld's 1907 Follies...