Word: trolleyers
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...Paul, Donald Harding, 3, climbed into an empty trolley car, swung the air brake handle, careened downhill. George Jelinek, 17, jumped on the cow catcher, broke the front window and swung the brake handle back, just as the car jumped the tracks. Only casualty: Donald Harding's mother, who cut her arm trying to climb in a side window...
...school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund of $1,675,000, Hershey Industrial School is continually under pressure to expand, has lately piled up embarrassingly large surpluses...
...dead to his friends; they and the outside world dead to him. Of course if he wants to strain his finger on a damnable little black button, he can talk to a friend brave enough to take the mile jaunt up Mount Auburn Street on a treacherous trolley...
...footballers formed a block about the trembling instructor, rushed him to the edge of the campus. A trolley car was hailed and Nathan Yagol scrambled gladly aboard. Then the Oglethorpe University football squad trotted off to Hermance Stadium to resume spring practice...
Claremont, Calif. There she takes a two-hour trolley ride once a week to get to a Los Angeles fencing club where she practices. At Scripps College, Miss Mayer meant to study international law to prepare for a career in the German foreign service. The Hitler regime changed her plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks...