Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates, but no personal friends. I don't go in for that sort of thing...
Engineers have begun studying sites for a proposed underground subway connection between Harvard Square and Porter Square, officials in the Cambridge Planning Commission and the Massachusetts Transit Authority said yesterday...
Ironically, the granddaughter of the girl who stamped into a business office as her right, says Author Jensen, is often stranded behind a typewriter out of necessity. While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway. Where the advance-guard girl once fought to get into college and out of corsets, she now fights to stay out of the divorce courts and off the analyst's couch But most of Author Jensen's photos go back to the days when the U.S. woman was just trying on her "new freedom...
...rather than sings the best of them. The outrageous rhymester's lines are deft and often delightful, particularly when coupling words like respectable and "Toulouse Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to pleasant music, though none of the tunes is likely to stick with you as far as the subway station. One which might is Roll Along Sadie, a lively number which suggests that Anita Loss might have been kinder to Sadie Thompson than Somerset Maugham...
They set up housekeeping in a single room in Forest Hills, just a 20-minute subway ride from Manhattan. It was a hand-to-mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic...