Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to win its first league scalp from Columbia, the weakest of the Crimson's rivals in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, Feslor's men board the train this morning for New York to engage in a return game with the Lions tonight...
...many a town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...
...accomplished nothing and went irritably home. Sigvard and Erika, with another week to wait before British law would let them marry, stayed conspicuously in London. Whispered Sigvard to his fiancee: "I will be glad when we are married and forgotten. Then you can return to the films, darling, and train to become a star...
...Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan G. Rubin (Claude Rains) does the same job, emerging in a final...
...lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...