Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded a Los Angeles trolley, deliberately courted a quarrel with the conductor and, after convincing himself that he was convincing in his part, soothed the ruffled streetcarman with a cigar and a lofty chat about international affairs...
...Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill out into the station bar and some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares...
Nervous Type. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Marshall Esperseth bounced his car off two trees, knocked over three trolley poles, sheared off a light pole, flattened two parking signs, smashed to a halt against a third tree, confided to arresting officers that he felt shaken...
...marks, and the ruins of war are wherever the visitor looks. The people of Warsaw do not look. Hurrying by in their fleece-lined topcoats and heavy boots, the women often wearing slacks and boots, they are too busy struggling to live. There are long queues for buses and trolley cars. There are endless day-long queues at the meat and bread stores for the basic food available: round loaves of dark bread and long Polish sausages. The cafés of Warsaw are crowded...
Once, for instance, a studio technician listened to the station all the way back to Cambridge from a date out at Wellesley. Telephone lines, trolley tracks, and the like are unfortunately fine conductors of the signals...