Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably other things equally as worthy of criticism in this special Class Day number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...
...Transportation showed last week that 1,593 bus lines have been opened in the U. S. since last January. Over 5,400 motor buses have been purchased at an approximate cost of $30,000,000. Many of these were bought by electric railways for operation in connection with trolley lines. On this basis, the figures at the end of this year will be 25% larger than those...
...there is a dancing fringe of corrupt selectmen, bridge-builders, and rather lanky girls who chase themselves around and around the stage to register crime and bad government. At least we think it was that, because they continually mentioned the defective bridge, the unmentionable Gas Plant, and the impossible trolley line--so much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting...
...aware of the transformation that has been wrought upon these wretches by modern Science. By furnishing the hormones, or vital gland secretion, in pill form, manufactured from the thyroid extract of animals, the village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins must continue their diurnal gland reinforcement or sink back to their...
Meanwhile, the trolley had stopped; and Signor Casalini was removed to the hospital, where he died soon after...