Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it was the 100,000 domestic ducks of the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association, fattening on nearby farms. Awakened by the searchlights feeling the sky for decoy planes, the ducks charged around in their wire pens like Brooklynites in the subway. They developed insomnia, turned up their bills at corn. Colonel Clair W. Baird, commanding Camp Upton, sighed, ordered his artillerymen to turn their lights the other...
When crater-mouthed Comic Joe E. Brown took a wife 25 years ago, they were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride...
There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...
Engaged. Dorothy B. Andrus, granddaughter of the late, subway-riding "Millionaire Straphanger" John E. Andrus, and Wightman Cup tennist, who married her first husband three times in a year, in 1933 divorced him; and Charles E. Voorhees, member of the Pennsylvania Legislature; in Philadelphia...
...skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...