Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like Linda's . . ." but only people who read books in bed instead of on the subway will notice such trivial but important discrepancies...
...conclusion of the one hour hour vigil, the Harvard students were served refreshments by the victorious party leaders participated in the jubilance that the voting returns evoked, and boarded the subway once more, most of them having had their first taste of practical politics...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, set out from London for Berlin with Baron Ashfield, famed London subway and omnibus tycoon. A suspicious circumstance was that both peers stated that their mission would be to play many a round of golf-in Germany of all places...
...remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...renovated, and to its improvement Modern Tintypes has a chance at some fine nonsense, but falls a little flat as compared with the representation of Utopia, which whimsicality is perfect. This reader will not forget the delightful idea of the Strata eating an English Muffin. The drawing of the subway rush demonstrates the usefulness of lithographers' crayon which Lampy should not overlook in the future...