Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lavatory an enormous blackboard, bisected by a white line. One side was headed POETRY the other PROSE. There was plenty of chalk for the suddenly inspired, an eraser for the censorious. In 1914 the city bought the Grand Union and tore it down in the course of subway construction. Since then Sam Shaw has lived in moderately comfortable retirement with his pleasant French wife...
...most of our leading streetcorners blind persons will now find maps in high relief," said Long Heinrich. "By feeling these maps the blind will be able to direct themselves to subway stations, street car and bus stops, and generally to find their way around Berlin with the minimum possible inconvenience...
...Carl Carlson, valet to Charles Michael Schwab, of a cracked skull suffered when he fell to the tracks of a New York subway; Most Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cannes where he is being treated by King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined...
University--The team will leave for Philadelphia today on the New York boat of the Eastern Steamship Line. The following will meet at 4 o'clock sharp downstairs in the subway in Harvard Square: Frame, Patterson Davenport, Barnaby, Broids, Cole, Inglis, Ray, Canfield...
...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...