Word: trolleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came the evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...
...applying such a statute in these cases seem very obscure, Few churches have afternoon services during the daylight hours; and even near those that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...
...adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period did the five-day week enter into calculations on how long a job would take...
...Francis Ouimet, wife of the one-time (1913) U. S. open and (1914) amateur golf champion, was hospitalized last week in Arlington, Mass. Cause: an auto-mobile-trolley crash...
...Pittsburgh, one O. J. Coats was arrested last week on the charge that he did steal a trolley car from a local yard, did go on a long Saturday-night joy ride to West View Park, clanging the gong merrily, all alone...