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Updated: June 14, 2025
Johnny slept with the diamonds pressed against his chest and it was with a distinct sense of relief that he at last heard the hollow roar of the train as it passed over the street subways, for he knew this meant he was back in dear old Chicago, where he might have bitter enemies, but where also were many warm friends.
It's Rome for the Romans, Georgie, lobsters in New England, avocados in Log Angeles, hog and hominy here." There were others listening now, and she was aware of her amused audience. "If you don't like my little old New York," Waterman said, "I'll change it." "No, I am going back to the real thing, Oscar. To my sky-scrapers and subways. You can't give us those down here not yet.
After luncheon, Cousin Jim with impulsive hospitality had carried her off to see the Big Town an expedition from which his wife relievedly withdrew and he had whirled Maria Angelina about in motors, plunged her into roaring subways, whisked her up dizzying elevators and brought her out upon unbelievable heights, all the time expounding and explaining with that passionate, possessive pride of the New Yorker by adoption, which left his young guest with the impression that he owned at least half the city and was personally responsible for the other half.
The million wage-slaves of the metropolis, packed morning and night into the roaring subways and whirled to and from their tasks, read items such as these and were thrilled by the triumphs of their fellow-countrymen. At Claire's house I learned to be interested in "society" news.
New York laughed a whole day and night at the warning red letters. They were the talk of the town. People joked about them in cafes, clubs, at home, in the streets, in the offices, in the exchanges, in the street-cars, on the Elevated, in the Subways. Crowds gathered on corners to watch the flapping posters aloft on the kite lines.
The subway ruins everything." "I don't care about subways nor nothing," Aaron cried. "I would get you what you want for that house. What would you consider a good price for the house, uncle?" "A very good price would be forty-two two-fifty," Uncle Mosha replied; "but me I would be willing to accept forty thousand." "Well, lookyhere," Aaron commenced; "I'm going to do this for you, Uncle Mosha.
Full as he was with the preoccupation of these things and so a little slow and inattentive in his movements, the bishop had his usual luck at Pringle Junction and just missed the 7.27 for Princhester. He might perhaps have got it by running through the subway and pushing past people, but bishops must not run through subways and push past people.
She belonged here, flying along inconspicuous and unmolested in light and darkness, just one of the hurrying and indifferent millions. The shop windows, the subways, the very gum-machines and the chestnut ovens with their blowing lamps looked friendly to Norma to-night; she loved every detail of blowing newspapers and yawning fellow-passengers, in the hot, bright tube.
Electricity and subways and motor cars do not restore the soul; and to know that there are millions upon millions of solar systems, like our own, scattered through space does not restore the soul; and to delve in the sea or to fly in the air or to fling our words through the ether does not restore the soul.
It's Rome for the Romans, Georgie, lobsters in New England, avocados in Los Angeles, hog and hominy here." There were others listening now, and she was aware of her amused audience. "If you don't like my little old New York," Waterman said, "I'll change it." "No, I am going back to the real thing, Oscar. To my sky-scrapers and subways. You can't give us those down here not yet.
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