Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a shock that Harvard learned, the other day, that the thing they thought dead had come to life again. And what a life. The whole freshman class arrives at Cambridge on one subway train, all playing ukuleles, all munching apples, according to the saddened reviewer of the Harvard CRIMSON. All the street and traffic signs in Hollywood must have been requisitioned to adorn the students rooms. California cactus hedges are interspersed among a few authentic Harvard scenes...
Morality will continue and magazines will continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian...
...tabloid journals flourishing today are at once a subway commonplace and a surface enigma. In the current Nation, Silas Bent undertakes to analyze their status and, after some purely journalistic comment, reaches this conclusion: the tabloids have discovered a new public. For, these new papers, easy to handle, to read, to look at, have run, in the city of New York for example, into a circulation of one and one quarter million copies without having proselyted from the older dailies, even considering retarded progress as well as actual impairment, more than one hundred thousand purchasers...
...definite characters. He was interested alone in showing his own revolt at the existence with which his characters were faced. But with "Arrow-Smith" came force, and he had made a living being. Dreiser's characters fade before the gloom of their background dos Passos' get lost in the subway jams of Times Square. But each has an occasional flicker of reality, of being, like mannikins in a show window they sometimes seem alive...
...many motorists who left their automobiles parked at the curb and returned to find them snow bound after the plows had raised mounds three feet high between the curb and the tracks. Later in the afternoon the surface car transportation practically ceased and Cambridge was isolated but for the Subway. Taxicabs were at a premium and one driver from the wheel of his much sought after conveyance was heard to remark to a group of petitioning fares on the curbstone, "Say, you couldn't get this cab for five dollars...