Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There for 15 years he worked, unnoticed and unnoticing. He had to move three years ago when the Rockefellers presented the land on which his old studio stood to the City (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). But he found another studio in an abandoned power house for a trolley system and went...
...responded were a handful of overcoated reporters lugging cameras and the polite directors of the trolley line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures...
This and more Sculptor Barnard repeated to his little handful of photographers and trolley directors last week...
...into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours later a farmer explained that for $10 he had unwittingly driven one of them to a trolley in nearby Maywood. The fugitive had pleaded that his wife had almost caught him in the woods with another woman, that he wanted to get home first to "save our kiddies from a broken home...
...grown-rich grew as bored with Florida swamps as he had with undecorated trolley cars. So he bought up a million and a half acres of Florida, mud and all. Before he got through he had acquired 14 hotels, built roads, railroads, towns, schools, banks, telephone systems, and opened a steamship line to Havana...