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I thought us bein' in party dress, and you sort o' tired out, a taxi'd be just about the best thing goin'." This reduced Win to the necessity for gratitude, and after months of the "L," the subway, and the crosstown car, the girl could not help revelling in a taxi.
Up Fifth Avenue; Forty-second Street, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, the crosstown glitter of lights, the reflected glow of Broadway, spraying the sky with dim gold-dust, begins to die a little behind them.
Claflin, across the street, understood from that that he was to go on up Fifth Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, the next intersection, and turn west to board any crosstown car which Mr. Wynne might possibly take; and a cabby, who had been sitting motionless on his box down the street, understood from it that he was to move slowly along behind Mr. Birnes, and be prepared for an emergency.
And all alone, strong, bitter, staring ahead, Joe stepped off to begin the new life ... to plunge into the battle. It was in that red gash of crosstown brick West Tenth Street that the new life began.
"Hippopotamus! Wouldn't that send you to the Bronx! It's been a year since he heard it; and he didn't miss it so very far. We quit at 469 B. C., and this comes next. Well, a wooden man wouldn't have guessed what he was trying to get out of him." Danny caught a crosstown car and went up to the rear flat that his labor supported. Old man McCree was still sitting by the window.
Continuing his progress in search of romance to divert him, or of distress that he might aid, Quigg became aware of a fast-gathering crowd that whooped and fought and eddied at a corner of Broadway and the crosstown street that he was traversing.
Schulenberg's patrons now knew what the food they ate was called even if its nature sometimes puzzled them. And Sarah had food during a cold, dull winter, which was the main thing with her. And then the almanac lied, and said that spring had come. Spring comes when it comes. The frozen snows of January still lay like adamant in the crosstown streets.
It is excellent discipline it is fighting all day, "Pous, podos, the foot pous, podos, the foot 34th Street, Crosstown East and West pous, podos, the foot!" And then when you get home late at night, are there not the great masters who love you? April 15th.
But something was missing, there was a great lack, a wide emptiness. She resolved then to see Joe. It was not, however, until the next afternoon that she took the elevated train to Ninth Street and then the crosstown car over the city. She alighted in the shabby street; she walked up to the entrance; she saw over the French windows a big canvas sign, "Strike Headquarters."
Jake Berger said these New Yorkers would pay for it sooner or later, burning the candle at both ends this way dancing all night and then starting off to work. Then up a little way we catch sight of a regular old-fashioned horse-car going crosstown. Ben has stopped this and is talking excitedly to the driver so we hurry up and find he's trying to buy the car from the driver.
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