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Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...editors once played up cables from Imperial Austria, hinted daringly the senile eccentricities of Kaiser Franz, frankly glorified U. S. maidens privileged to be presented at his Court, and got out screaming extras when the suspicious, hidebound old Emperor was finally tricked into taking his first automobile ride by Wilhelm...
...Manhattan, as a memorial to her son Alumnus Harry Elkins Widener. The building has already been nicknamed "Hobby Hall," It will contain lathes, printing presses, cinema machines, dark rooms, telescopes, microscopes, stuffed birds, model engines, yards of linoleum for linoleum blocks, modelling clay, paints. Here students may feed, groom, ride their hobbies, also take courses in natural sciences...
...sweated with pick and shovel, earlier in the week, uprooting all the police "safety islands" in the boulevards along which the cortege would pass. On his last ride the supreme generalissimo must swerve neither to right nor left, and so the ugly "islands" were uprooted, and straight down the centre of the long ribbons of asphalt passed Ferdinand Foch...
Episcopal duties in Lexington do not consist merely of preaching in the great Cathedral on Church Street. The Bishop must visit the poor up in the hills. He must ride on senescent irresponsible trains. Sometimes he rides on a mule...