Word: motorman
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...rarely used an automobile. He either walked or rode on a trolley next to the motorman...
...generous support for research in pure science. He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill. Edison looks for all transportation and industry to be electrified: " You never saw a motorman tinkering around under his streetcar...
...CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corncobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon does, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenge the Harvard CRIMSON to its annual baseball game on Wednesday. May the 16th (sixteenth) at 3.00 (three) o'clock in the afternoon and begs firstly that the CRIMSON will publish the score of the game only after said game has rightfully been...
...CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corn-cobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon, I say, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenges the Harvard CRIMSON, to its annual baseball game on Wednesday. May the 16th (sixteenth) at 3.00 (three) o'clock in the afternoon, and begs, firstly, that the CRIMSON will publish the score of the game only after said game...
...will be a hard boiled individual who will reach for a drink after reading "The Beautiful and Damned" at one sitting. The consumption of liquor in quarts per page is so tremendous that the reader sooner or later begins to sense the stale liquor smell and the motorman's glove taste of the morning after. Mr. Fitzgerald, to repeat, may have no such intention but he has succeeded in demonstrating pretty effectively that the pursuit of pleasure as the end of life may be at the beginning pretty delightful but is likely to prove less so as the highballs succeed...