Word: trolley
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...Salem, Mass., Kenneth Moffett, church organist, stepped among fallen trolley wires which burned off all his clothes without hurting...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...election of Thomas Semmes Walmsley, red-headed regular, whose insurgent opponent was Francis Williams. Nominee Walmsley has been acting mayor in the absence of Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The issue in the Democratic primary was last year's bloody trolley strike (TIME, July 15 et seq.). Accusing Candidate Walmsley of helping Public Service Corp. to break the strike, Candidate Williams begged workingmen to "kick the aristocracy out of City Hall." Candidate Walmsley talked of Law & Order, changed the subject to civic progress. A dirty muckraking campaign though the primary was, with...
Knut Hamsun, 69, is a onetime shoemaker's apprentice, coal-heaver, schoolteacher, road-mender, farmhand, trolley conductor, fisherman. Twice he has visited the U. S. Now he lives with his family on an estate near Grimstad, Norway...
Suddenly a young man in pale grey knickerbockers, his own face even paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...