Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grady are sisters under their skins; but they firmly believe that Judy O'Grady's skin is prettier. On this assumption some of Judy's champions last week held a competition for "Miss Cafeteria Society." The place was Manhattan's Fiesta Danceteria, where subway society can get supper on a tray for 60? dance all night for nothing to Manhattan's better swing bands. Fiesta's patrons flocked to compete: stenographers, sales girls, telephone operators, factory girls from Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx, in $2.98 dresses, 98162; hats and 59162; silk stockings...
...spent searching for parking space. If he walks, half his money will be devoted to the ties at Leopold Morse or the pipes at Leavitt and Peirce. The commuter will pursue his bus; the shopper will nibble mints at Woolworth's and the theatergoer will dash for the subway stairs. The Square is the beginning and end of all life: it is the road to class and the cup for that last drop of midnight coffee...
...Harold Ickes Jr., spit-&-image son of the Secretary of the Interior, posed for photographers (see cut), was irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night...
...citizen, had been commuting from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much for Commuter Brooks. Wheeling, he smacked Guard Walsh a lusty bust smack on the nose...
...York City has three subway systems: I. R. T. (Interborough Rapid Transit), B. M. T. (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) and Independent (city-owned...