Word: trolley
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...years ago the city, having already banished Sixth Avenue's trolley cars, tore down its elevated. That only lifted Sixth Avenue's veil. It needed its face lifted...
...after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year - $21 a month instead...
...those divine Harvards, with their knee-length tweeds, and as for the Yales well, I've never seen so many cute crew-cuts and those stubby little pipes. And such gentlemen too! I almost slapped one boy when he whistled and said, "Look at the open-work on that trolley". I turned on him, and said "Mind your manners." I could have died when I found he really was talking about a street...
...button tweed--why is he only the fifth best dressed man? I don't think Max Baer's got anything on him . . . W. Russell Bowie, Jr., President of that delicious Harvard Lampoon, in a palmbeach suit and a steamer rug . . . of course Lucius Beebe came in a trolley...
...ordinary citizen, pulling a few crumpled bills, odd change and trolley tokens from his pocket, may wonder who has all this money. Bankers (holding about $1,200,000,000 in currency, about 15%) wonder too. Some possible explanations: 1) hoarding by foreigners, 2) increased need for small coins for sales taxes, vending and pinball machines, 3) decline in checking accounts because of service charges...