Word: pullmans
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Tickets may be bought under this plan until Saturday, April 15. They are good for 30 days following the date of sale, but must be used by Sunday, April 30. Stopovers are permitted along the route, both going and returning, and a passenger may use the reduction with Pullman seats although the Pullman prices are not reduced...
Starting with a maple-syrup agency and her husband's name, Bea managed to struggle along till she gathered in Delilah, a great black mammy with a beautiful disposition and a gift for cooking. The first B. Pullman waffle shop on the Board Walk was such a success that others followed. Bea, gradually discovering unsuspected executive talents, went on from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing...
...broad to be answered briefly. It involves a consideration of the fundamental nature, purpose and benefits of education. In a change of the sort proposed a pass degree will be nothing more than a mere diploma to hang on the wall or something to brag about in Pullman cars. Furthermore, in some fields it would be absolutely impracticable to ensure the slightest understanding of a subject by the Pass men without tutorial instruction. This, I think, is the case in Economics. In this field a pass degree without tutorial assistance would be no more than a certificate of ignorance. Even...
Unlike sexy Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, Emperor Jones contains no love motif. O'Neill's hero was a Negro convict, a one-time Pullman porter, crapshooter, murderer, who escaped to the West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that...
With 21 other Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), small Wilhelm Herp, 12, was riding along in a special Pullman car between Three Rivers and Quebec one day last month, rehearsing for the next concert. Suddenly, to the dismay of Wilhelm Herp & friends but as it must to most young males, adolescence came to Wilhelm Herp. In the midst of a note his clear young alto voice sharply, ludicrously "broke." Obviously he could sing no more on the Wiener Sängerknaben 's U. S. tour (TIME, Nov. 14). There were 30-odd concerts still to come...