Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lippman is cheering. Post-war feverishness has found expression largely in the metro-politan dailies, and a revival of sanity and restraint in the press would be a hopeful sign for American civilization. It will be interesting to observe the ratio between the Times and the Graphic in the subway cars...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine, succeeded in erecting the gigantic columns and romanesque choir, which his successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur actor. Ink is an ethnologist, .knows a vast deal about the Amerindians, was author of last year's Pulitzer Prize...
...want to insert an advertising card in a New York subway or a San Francisco surface car you must see Barron Collier. Thus far, such advertisements have not appeared in the planes of U. S. airlines. But when they do, it may some day be necessary to "see" Air Ads, Inc., which opened offices last week in Manhattan. Already Air Ads has completed negotiations with famed old Brooks Brothers, clothiers, with Poland Water and with Literary Digest to place their advertising in planes of Ludington Line (New York, Philadelphia & Washington), has several other territories under negotiation...
...from the confines of the Yard, of tidal marshes bordering the Charles and of the elms that made Massachusetts Avenue a shady, restful country lane. Well--, the Vagabond realizes that the world must change, and he supposes that twentieth century traffic on the Avenue, gasoline fumes, and the Boston subway really represent progress. But he still holds firm to his belief that green grass and college campi are one and inseparable, and when it is proposed to remove a major part of the remaining vestiges of grass, particularly in the Yard, the Vagabond's soul recoils with horror. Controversy there...
There is a certain class of students in this college who under favorable conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet...