Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes magnalite commercially usable. Faced with a long-drawn fight for control which will ruin all the little stockholders, grandstanding Dan Armstrong makes the best grandstand play...
...races are over the Henley distance--one and five-sixteenths miles--starting at the Cottage Farm Bridge and finishing between the Massachusetts Ave. and Subway Bridges...
...trolley cars hitched together was derailed by a split switch in the center of the Square at about five o'clock last night. A crowd of interested students, eager to help the baffled surface car operators, soon gathered and was augmented by rush-hour hordes emerging from the nearby subway entrance...
...literary theme this is of course nothing new. When Mr. Brown's long poem "For the Ballet of Sulla" entwines rumba notes and jarring subway trains with rich musical echoes from the past, it is not unfair to say that its inspiration is the same as that of most youthful verse since "The Waste Land". It is gratifying, however, to find this motif displayed not banally or sensationally, but with true lyrical feeling in a profusion of really haunting evocations. Less ambitiously, and in a more quizzical mood, Mr. G. M. Messing has composed another modernistic elegy, based on Jewish...
...year-old, $2,400-a-year City College psychology instructor named Walter Vogt, whose ticket was signed "Alpha Omega." When reporters arrived to congratulate him on his good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket...