Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow train will make a round trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire tomorrow, leaving Boston's North Station at 8.15 o'clock in the morning, and returning from Plymouth at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon at a special $2.50 rate...
...issues. New York Civil Service Commissioner Paul Kern and a Manhattan accountant named Bernard Reis filed a brief objecting to the registration statements as "tending to mislead the public." Hearst kept deferring the effective date of the issues. Hounded by creditors, in June 1937 he took a train to New York and went to see Judge Shearn. This time Mr. Hearst was more than strapped. This time Hearst was desperate...
...Good view from the train (no time to get off) of the Justice Shallow country...
With all the gay spirit of her name, "Zaza" dances and twirls her petticoats and darts exciting French eyes to the farthest corners of the University Theatre. As a vivacious music-hall entertainer, Claudette Colbert finds a part suited to her temperament, and handles her high kicks and train of suitors with the same refreshing ability. But when necessities of plot turn her heart towards a rich, Parisian businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris...
Nothing was more insufferable to Vag than the Sunday train ride back to Boston. He squinted through the frosted window, sighed dismally, and then the impossible happened. A pretty girl, a college girl, undoubtedly from Wellesley, took the vacant seat next to him. It happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there...