Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a few days before Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hart Benton celebrated his 50th birthday with a big party in Kansas City, Mo. (see p. 18) and next day caught a train for Manhattan. The celebration there was even bigger-an over-all exhibition of his paintings from 1908 to 1939. His first one-man Manhattan show in seven years, it was installed in a blaze of light at the opening of a new Fifth Avenue gallery by Associated American Artists (TIME...
...confidence, determination. It is designed to fortify the resort's paralysis patients, put heart into their fight for recovery. When he goes to Warm Springs, Franklin Roosevelt steeps himself in this spirit quite as purposefully as he exercises in its waters. Easter afternoon, when he went to the train which was to take him back to Washington after a ten-day rest, his smile and bearing clearly reflected the spirit of Warm Springs...
...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...
...Reginald has tried hard to persuade his Assembly to exempt him (as the Army and garbage are now exempt) from Bermuda's ban on the use of automobiles. The Assembly has always refused: the Governor could get about perfectly well, like everyone else, by foot, bicycle, buggy, train, motorboat, ferry or sailboat...
...follow. And America will follow the race, and undoubtedly--for we say this every year--the season will end with the subway series, a Boston dime as opposed to the New York nickel, between the Boston Bees and the Red Sox. For it could happen. The Yankees might be train wrecked, or drafted, or something...