Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
After many years of agitation, it is now practically certain that the Subway rotunda in the Square will be reduced in size. The Committee on Street Railways favored the bill to reduce it when it met yesterday morning in the State House, although no definite action was taken. No one opposed the idea of the project...
...Dube 1G.B. the other day and he sez to me that he liked the early Pullman style of Memorial Hall. As for a hotel on Mt. Auburn Street Joe was of my opinion too. We need a new Joint he says and seeing how our old meeting place, the Subway Rotunda is soon to come down, why not have a hotel lobby to hang out in? And by gosh there is something in that that the Planning Board and the rest of the University Gang should not forget. Jimmie Waldorf $5G.B...
...Manhattan subway train, last week, some telephone girls sat together and giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other...
...Cambridge. His bill, providing for a reduction in size of the present structure, was referred to the committee on street railways, where it has remained for over a year. The Boston Elevated Railway has steadily opposed the change, even going so far as to threaten to discontinue subway service between Central and Harvard Squares...