Word: transit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Paderewski is the most widely beloved of living musicians, his sailing date for the 1929-30 season is the most eagerly watched. But most of the world's musicians were last week in transit or on the verge of transit. Important was the arrival in the U. S. of Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first concerts of the New York Philharmonic-symphony. With him came wife and pet dog Piciu. Daughters Wanda and Wally come soon...
...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
...someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored up much Filene goodwill through his habit of giving away merchandise, particularly to children...
...half days was the flying photograph in transit, eight days faster than the fastest steamer...
...salesman got a divorce, married again. No.1 Wife, jealous, hearing that No. 2 was to have a baby, bought a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums, hid in it a lively venomous viper, mailed it to her hated rival. No. 2 opened the package, saw the snake (dead from cold in transit) drop out, gave premature birth to her baby. No. 1 Wife, cornered by police, confessed, will be tried for attempted murder...