Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager of the Glen Motion Picture Theatre had advertised a holiday matinee for children. In deference to Scotch ethics it was not a free matinee, but the admission was only a penny. Just after lunch 800 children clutching grimy pennies trooped to the Glen Theatre and sat on hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were the theatre's three scrubwomen, delegated to the task of suppressing unnecessary...
When No. 9, the first Pullman car, left Bloomington, Ill., for Chicago on the evening of Sept. 1, 1859, it carried four passengers. They slept in wooden bunks, were warmed by a wood-burning stove. A brakeman attended to the duties which have since devolved upon the porter. Last year Pullman Co. operated 9,248 luxuriously equipped Pullmans, carried 33,923,920 passengers who were waited upon by 12,000 porters and maids. From its traveling dormitories, Pullman profited to the extent of more than...