Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston and Maine Railroad announced tonight that a weekend snow train would be run to Franconia Notch if conditions are satisfactory. The first snow train of the year, scheduled for last weekend was postponed owing to poor snow conditions...
...extra week's vacation, writes the dean that she is awfully sick and encloses--incidentally--a five pound box of candy... Later hear more gossip about clever means of lengthening vacations. Exciting is the case of an undergraduate who times his return to college so well that his train is to arrive nine minutes before his first class. Of course, the train is an hour late. The student, already visualizing the opening of those one-way gates, arrives just as the section man is dropping the slip into the box. Let it be said that every Harvard man has inherent...
...James Petrillo, who likes to be called "The Mussolini of Music," was born in 1892 on Chicago's slummy West Side. He spent a precarious childhood selling newspapers, running elevators up & down Loop buildings, driving a horse & cart, peddling crackerjack and peanuts on a North West ern Railroad train. Young Petrillo played the trumpet, but so badly that the only jobs he could get were at picnics. On this account he went into politics. He served three years as vice president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians before he became its president in 1922. Highest-priced labor leader...
Actor Gardiner last year conquered Broadway by imitating-with a few simple but compelling gestures, an appropriate word or sound and the expression of his amazingly mobile face-such improbable objects as a French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...
Last month a steel elevated train rammed a wooden one on Chicago's North Side, killing11, injuring 67. Some of the victims complained of ambulance chasers. Last week, after a secret investigation, police arrested eight ringleaders, estimated that their gang comprised 1,500 lawyers, doctors, undertakers, hospital attaches, police station loungers, runners, streetcar motormen, professional witnesses...