Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came along the [train] corridor with a bunch of magazines he was selling. ... He came in and sat with me for half an hour and we had quite a talk about books and reading generally. At the end of our conversation he told me ... he would like to give me something he greatly valued. Whereupon he unpinned a badge he was wearing, which carried the words 'MacArthur for President,' and pinned it on the lapel of my coat. [Thereafter] when the boy passed my room, I proudly displayed the badge; when anyone else came along, I took evasive...
...rise another $167 million this year. Wages, boosted 16? an hour last week for the roads' 1,300,000 workers, have increased almost 48% since Pearl Harbor. Without the rate increase, the roads said, they could not buy new equipment, like the vermilion-and-grey streamlined Pacemaker freight train (with panel smoke deflectors on the locomotive) which the New York Central is starting between New York and Niagara Falls. Nor could they avoid a loss this year...
...Year for Oaters. The first Successful storytelling movie made in the U.S., The Great Train Robbery (1903) was what the trade calls an oater-a Western. David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, which at $6,000,000 will outcost any other film ever made, is essentially another oater. Inspired less by Duel than by the end of war and the insatiable appetite for action, the major studios are this year spending some $20,000,000 on "class" oaters...
Readers who follow Eudora Welty's train across the Mississippi Delta will find that its last stop is cloud-cuckoo land-which was also the setting of Author Welty's previous books: A Curtain of Green (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941); The Wide Net (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943). In those short stories (which won her one Guggenheim Award and three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant...
...amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train, and whom Author Welty manages to pin down during the few days when they are in a bustle over the marriage of one of the girls...