Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifty years ago, there was an omnibus horse-car leaving Brattle Streetor Boston every 15 minutes during the day. "The fare was 15 cents a trip. They were tretty friaid affaris in the winter, and had the floors covered with rushes to keep the passengers from freezing their feet during the long jolting through the Square out to Watertown...
...financiers' widows who had so often graced the board of his predecessor, Bishop Creighton, the guests at Bishop Ingram's parties were working-girls and bargees. During the War he held scores of services on the battlefront. The press has called him, at various times, the Omnibus Bishop, the King's First Bishop, the Breezy Bishop, the Bishop of the Slums. Punch one lampooned him in some gentle verses.* Before starting for the U. S. he offered his palace rent-free "to any churchman or churchwoman who will pay the salaries of the servants and the taxes...
...Passed numerous omnibus pension bills...
...doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...
...controls the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co., (makers of busses) and the Yellow Cab Co.'s in this country. The stock of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. is worth about $28,000,000. The rumor as promulgated in Chicago had it that the merger was to include the omnibus company which controls the Chicago Motor Coach Co., operators of busses and the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. (Manhattan), also bus operators - in which case it would be a $60,000,000 affair and put General Motors into the operating as well as manufacturing business, taking control of the interests of John...