Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divine Comedy he is meticulously described as a giant with three heads (colored red, yellow and black respectively). In the hands of Milton and Goethe, he became successively a tragic hero and a debonair, reasonable-seeming man of the world. At 20th century masquerade parties and in subway headache ads, the Devil generally wears a red union suit and wields a large pitchfork...
...later the commissioner learned the disconcerting truth. A 24-year-old pants salesman named Arnold Schuster had recognized Willie while riding on the subway, had trailed him to a gasoline station, where the bank robber got a battery for his stalled automobile, and had then gone up to the radio car in which Policemen Shea and McClellan were lounging...
...sense, all this had happened before: the automobile, the subway, the railroads had all been castigated as menaces to the community. As late as 1941, trains were not allowed to move along the New York Central freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side unless they were preceded by a horseman who carried a flag by day and a red lantern by night...
...washrooms. Liebman's show went on the air without a camera rehearsal and from the stage of a theater. Curtains opened & closed for each number. The camera looked straight ahead. If there were more than five dancers together on the viewer's screen, they looked like a subway mob at rush hour...
...grimy dawn came to a Brooklyn subway station one day last week, police rounded up seven disheveled bums who were sleeping in an empty train. Only one pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct. Nursing the hangover from an all-night party, Maxwell Bodenheim, one of the old breed of Greenwich Village Bohemians, insisted he was only an innocent straphanger. The sick old (61) poet-novelist spent the day in jail before a friend posted $25 bond...