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...rumored that an ambitious crew of extroverts has hired one of Cambridge's trolley-cars for a jumbo predance party on the move. Others, less original, are poring over Massachusetts fire laws to see if beach party bonfires are legal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Swarm Over Yard As '51 Jubilee Opens Today | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...there are immense treasures of holiness dispersed here & there-usually in the most unexpected places. . . . Perfection is no longer in the mountains with hermits, in the convents with nuns. It is in the streets, in the banks, in the shops, in the trains and trolleys. Only last week the Roman trolley-car drivers gave a whole of one day's pay to the poor. That means one day of starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Orleans trolley-car routes actually bear such startling labels as "Desire" and "Cemeteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

This was the last big weekend for the little boys who scramble for pennies along the trolley route from Yale out to the Bowl. The open trolleys, with raccoon coats and windswept skirts, clinging to the sides, are officially a thing of the past. People just don't take the trouble to pay for their ride, so there'll be shiny new busses by next fall...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Women, Whiskey, Accidents Flavored Huge Eli Weekend | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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