Word: busness
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...Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route No. 1 was frozen tight all the way south to Philadelphia. All bus service was suspended. No airmail or air express or air passenger service attempted to get through to Boston...
...many a town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...
...housing and clothing problem is simple here, and the Mexican has no fuel problem. He lives largely out of doors. In the country he raises what he needs, and he couldn't spend 1½ pesos a day on "honest pleasures" if he tried. In town, a bus will take him anywhere for 2?, the best U. S, movies are shown a few weeks late for 8½?, and a good pair of shoes can be purchased at the open market for two pesos. He prefers his own guitar to a caterwauling radio and he wouldn't want...
...Happened One Night (Columbia) contains the material of many a recent picture: the brash, whiskey-drinking newshawk (Clark Gable); the girl (Claudette Colbert) whose father thinks she has been kidnapped; the Florida-New York bus on which they are riding North together-the girl to join her recently-acquired socialite husband of whom her father disapproves, the reporter to get the story of her escapade...
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...