Word: trolleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...
...sized shelf of books on the subject.* Big of frame, he used to play football and the violin, equally well, as a Yale undergraduate. John Coolidge has been invited to stay under the Bacon roof (No. 244 Edwards St.) as long as he desires. It is 20 minutes by trolley from John Coolidge's office. It is less than a block from the scene of last week's automobile accident...
...night long Harvard Square leaps in over his windowsill. The lights glitter, gleam and tirelessly climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...
...trombone with him which he played at frequent intervals. He seemed eager to tell everyone about the old days when he was a young man and when Chicago was a young city. Said Richard Evans: "I knew Chicago before it had a railroad, a paved street, a trolley car, or a telephone...
Elections. The committee then listened to Josiah Marvel, a swarthy, elderly country gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Marvel said that Delaware offered to the Democracy a manager who could think the way average Americans think from trolley conductors to potent capitalists. He nominated John Jacob Raskob of Delaware for chairman of the committee. Mr. Raskob was unanimously elected. The committee elected other officers as follows...