Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napkin on the Knee. The luncheon-held in a high-ceilinged Senate committee room complete with crystal chandelier, potted palms and outrageous painted cherubs-soon resembled a subway rush. A bar did a roaring business at one end of the room. A jostling throng of Senators, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and newsmen juggled drinks and loaded plates as the President sat eating, napkin on knee, on a chair against the wall...
...rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet ... [He will find] that the credit built up so rapidly by the valor of the Red Army has been dissipated...
Inside, in a story unerringly aimed at the subway set, the News disclosed that the battle began when Miss Sothern was accused by Miss Collier, a "seminude novelty dancer," of wearing "falsies." For News readers, Georgia sniffed: if anyone needed falsies, it was Joann. "Some got 'em and some...
Today's race will be a confusing one to watch. Two of the shells, the Crimson's and MIT's, that will start at the Charles Street Bridge (the subway bridge) have the same colors, grey and red. All three crews will wear similar jerseys. Harvard will row in white T-shirts with crimson numerals on them and MIT and Princeton will have orange numerals on their T-shirts. But that's all right, the Crimson Key intends to broadcast the race, which will end by the MIT boat house near the Cottage Farm Bridge, through londspeakers posted along...
Tonight, at 7:15, I intend to stand at the Subway kiosk and repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader