Word: tram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortening its season the Metropolitan had postponed its New York opening until the night after Christmas a Tuesday which by contract belonged' to the Philadelphia subscribers. Therefore the New York pageant really began in Philadelphia when, a week ahead of time, the Company chartered its special tram and went where Stotesburys and Biddies take the place of Astors and Vanderbilts There were the same flashlights as the box-holders stepped from their limousines. Opera glasses kept up a steady scrutiny between acts. But Philadelphians also had something to look at during the performance for the prima donna...
Somebody aboard a speeding railway train near Dusseldorf fired random shots at pedestrians, hit none. Gerresheim police picked up a dead bicyclist, said he had been killed "apparently by shots fired aimlessly by passengers on a tram...
...days prior they had assembled at Pittsburgh, in the streets' outside old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, whose publicity-wise pastor, Rev. James R. Cox, had collected small sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead...
Electro-Surgery, the use of a cauterizing knife, is as far ahead of scalpel surgery "as the modern electric tram is ahead of the lumbering horse car."-Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...