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...omona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great and small, Pullman cars, comparison-makers, and a Duchess. She makes two matches and - in her usual, unorthodox way - stag hunts and attends a knighting. Pomona is as hilarious as ever, if a bit more rounded off on the edges....

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...experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman cook. In 1897, he was hired as principal chef for the private railway car of U.S. Steel magnates (the fin-de-siecle equivalent of today's Lear Jets for corporate travel). There he served succulent fare for the rich an...

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...Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living a...

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...ur projectile of the Earth, and he sullied it (definitely the floor of the Pullman car, but perhaps the world as a whole) with the crumbs of his fruit... ...ifically, cowering from his sullied personal life on an upper sleeper of a Pullman car in a train bound for Nongkai and nowhere. He realized that he w... ...s increasingly discontent to stay within the hole in the embankment of the Pullman car that at times seemed a coffin or a drawer at a morgue, and at o...

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...ilies. They were free, in a man’s world, in the smoking-compartment of the Pullman. 123 Sinclair Lewis Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness... ...conver- sation. It was the very young man, now making his first journey by Pullman, who began it. “Say, gee, I had a wild old time in Zenith!” he glor... ...p. Mighty glad to met you.” Babbitt lay awake in the close hot tomb of his Pullman berth, shaking with remembrance of the fat man’s limer- ick about t... ...” Wing uttered approving grunts and Babbitt swelled—gloated The blind of a Pullman compartment was raised, and Babbitt looked into an unfamiliar world... ... a towel. To have a private washroom was luxurious. However en- livening a Pullman smoking-compartment was by night, even to Babbitt it was depressing... ...ded of the story of the two Irishmen, Mike and Pat, who were riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I forgot to say, were sailors in the Navy. It seems ... ...ng for a while, I may feel so darn small that I’ll be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! “‘Gentlemen, it strikes me ... ...ls of real estate and the phrases of politics. When the other sages of the Pullman smoking-compartment had left them to themselves, Babbitt’s voice di... ...- bitt did not care to be seen talking with such a fanatic, but in all the Pullmans he could find no other acquain- tance, and reluctantly he halted. ...

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...rl of smoke, in a long succession of way-coaches, and choco- late coloured Pullmans, grimy with the dust of the great deserts of the Southwest. The qu... ...Hilma. “Five in the morning!” “Never mind,” he declared, “we’ll go home in Pullman’s, Hilma. I’m not going to have any of those slobs in Bonneville sa... ...thing in style, and we’ll have Vacca meet us with the team. No, sir, it is Pullman’s or nothing. When it comes to buying furniture, I don’t shine, per... ...a little cri- sis. He rushed ahead so furiously that when he had found his Pullman he had lost his party. He set down his valises to mark the place an... ... out into the aisle. In the seat that had been occupied by the porter, the Pullman conductor, his cash box and car-schedules before him, was checking ...

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...bottoms to the Rockies. It is September, hot, very dusty. There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced... ...phatic. They were harshly pompous, like men in the smoking-compartments of Pullman cars. They did not bore Carol. They frightened her. She panted, “Th... ... long and immensely detailed story of the crushing things he had said to a Pullman porter, named George, Bresnahan hugged his knees and rocked and wat... ...tand between them and the shame of naked mountains; they talk steadily, in Pullmans, on hotel porches, at cafeterias and motion- picture shows, about ...

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..., the slang of the barber-shops, the mental elevation and integrity of the Pullman car porter, the dignity of the dime museum, and the accuracy of the...

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...o’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you think you’re travelling on a Pullman?” And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous....

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...-office than to elbow one’s own way through the crowd. Dick put her into a Pullman,— solely on account of the warmth there; and she re- garded the ext...

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...ntrivances for comfort, like the ready- made luxury and “convenience” of a Pullman. However, she had intervened in time to reserve certain of the room...

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...on. Everybody got ready to laugh. “Well, if he’d rather take the side-door Pullmans we’re go- ing to get aboard tonight than the ‘Sunset Limited,’ he’...

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... were more inclined to yield to the temptation to become hotel waiters and Pullman-car porters as their life-work. 61 Booker T. Washington During the... ...sta, Georgia, to Atlanta, being rather tired from much travel, I road in a Pullman sleeper. When I went into the car, I found there two ladies from Bo...

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...king at Gertrude, whose expres- sion was inscrutable. “We can get into the Pullman car,” said T refusis. “There we shall be as private as in a corner ... ...nstrance. “You are exciting yourself about nothing, Chester. They are in a Pullman, with her maid and plenty of people; and she expressly gave him lea...

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...as not spoken much since. It came just as we were start- ing in an invalid Pullman, fitted with every comfort; but the jars of these lines are unavoid...