Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged at cost, at a minimum of expense. During the next week, two of these excursions will take place. On Wednesday July 12 an excursion to Boston is scheduled. As the sites to be visited are close together in the congested down town district, the party goes by the subway, and in a series of short walks sees some of Boston's most interesting features. Arriving on Boston Common the party first visits the State House the front of which was designed by Charles Bullfinch, and erected in 1795. Doric Hall, Memorial Hall, the State Library, (containing the Bradford Manuscript...
TIME-worthy Tabloid Sirs: I am not only a cover-to-cover reader of TIME but my freakishness includes the insane longing for a similar version of the day's news to make me forget the trials of a daily subway jaunt...
Roberta Keene Tubman, descendant of Signer of the Declaration of Independence William Hooper, a vice president of the America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged...
...light and airy rhythm. The swank blues and mousey grays of Central Square hoyer by; gay bucks and their plebeian maids are on the shabby avenue, tempting one to stray abroad. The Vagabond, pigeon-breasted from long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...
Also last week H. R. H. drove a London subway train over a new extension. Said his instructor: "He's got the makings of a pretty good motorman...