Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers of the Boston (Seven Times) Daily Record will recognize this little item, but for those who don't ride in the subway after 11 o'clock in the evening it will be news...
...Matthias, and lie was numbered with the eleven Apostles. The Times thought the lottery "degrading, humiliating and destructive." The American was piously against the plan. But the irrepressible Daily News was all for it because "there's no fun in a sales tax, a business tax, or a subway tax, but there's lots of fun in a lottery because every ticket buyer has a right to dream of winning. . . . We hope that Mayor LaGuardia, who has shown plenty of guts in the past, will not be frightened by the squeamish squawks he's hearing now from...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, she had reached Seattle by boat. Thoroughly unimpressed by her transcontinental flight, she told astonished newshawks: "First thing I'm going to do is ride in a streetcar, because I've never been in one. Then I'm going to ride in the subway. Then I want to ride in an automobile. . . . Then I'm going to ride in an express elevator...
...Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico. Robinson declined the consulship, accepted a job in the New York Customs House, which he kept until...
...alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...