Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From smoky, factory-ridden Steubenville, Ohio, 28 brightly scrubbed boys arrived in Manhattan last week, saw Rockefeller Center, the Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...
...four-foot narrow stairway that allows passage for but one man at a time each way up and down. Eight minutes out of every hour are therefore spent moving an absurdly short distance of some twenty or thirty fect in a congestion comparable only to a New York subway station in a rush hour...
Whether it be riding in the subway, waiting for at traffic light to turn green, or shaving before breakfast, Mr. Moore's productive brain takes but a single minute to compose the 14-line poetry unit which was first utilized by Patriarch and Shakespeare...
...Bronx, Mrs. Jeannette Ranola, 27, mother of three, was arrested on the charge of having stolen a 75-lb. steel safe from Frank Werner, carried it down five flights of stairs to a taxi, up four flights to her own apartment, then down again and by subway to a friend's apartment where she broke it open...
...offices of the Bureau are in the rear of Gannett House, a small white frame building opposite the Massachusetts Avenue entrance to the street car subway. Office hours are from 9 to 5 o'clock during the week and 9 to 1 o'clock on Saturdays. The spring examination period causes the staff considerable worry so the office is closed from April 17 to June...