Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, unwary child on Massachusetts Avenue tripped over the couple of feet of scarf a girl dragged behind her. Underground, there was some confusion over a man who got tangled in his scarf trying to board a subway. It's all part of a new fashion trend. Even when modern mufflers are wrapped two or three times around one's neck, there is a good five or six feet left over, depending, of course, on the size of the individual...
...cent subway fare will be a thing of the past by March 1 if Gov. Herter's plan to revise the MTA is passed as expected...
...shall probably live a year or two at most," Poet-Novelist Maxwell Bodenheim once wrote in a letter to a young woman admirer, "and then investigate the twinkling scandals of the sky." The letter was found on the young woman's body in a Times Square subway wreck in 1928, at the height of Bodenheim's literary popularity. This week, 25 years later, Max Bodenheim was off at last to investigate the twinkling scandals...
...asking this question as it trooped once again to Rue Cambon for 71-year-old Coco Chanel's first fashion show in 15 years. There was more than a show of feline claws as the fat cats of the fashion world crowded in among the models like subway riders in a rush hour. Some fashion writers found Coco's long-skirted, severely tailored designs "tacky." A plain navy suit was modeled, wrote one, "by a brunette mannequin who was with Chanel 20 years ago. In the respectful silence you could almost hear the jaws dropping." The writer...
...response was strong. The Ministry of Health doled out 4,000,000 francs. From another ministry came blankets. The army contributed trucks to move supplies, hospitals established dormitories, and municipal buildings were turned into soup kitchens and sleeping halls. The Metro turned over three unused subway stations to Abbé Pierre for shelters against the cold...