...conductor paced the heaving floor, but the driver would rap remindingly with his elbow upon the glass ,6f the door to his little open platform if the nickels...were wont to expect as much for themselves on like occasions. In good weather the mule pulled the car a mile in a little less than twenty minutes, unless...

...grew bald in patches and used to slide from the careless drivers' knees and hang unconcerned, halfway to the ground. The stables have been transformed into...to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. mule pulled the car a mile in a little less than twenty minutes, unless the stops were too long; but...

...clumps when the weather was bad and the car crowded. The patrons — if not too absent-minded—put their fares into a slot; and no conductor paced the...to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. mule pulled the car a mile in a little less than twenty minutes, unless the stops were too long; but...

...and the car would halt at once, and wait for her, while she shut the window, put on her hat and coat, went downstairs, found an umbrella, told the "girl"...to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. Too slow for us nowadays, because the faster we're carried the less time we have to spare. ' But in...

...and the car would hall at once, and wait for her, while she shut the window, put on her hat and coat, went downstairs, found an umbrella, told the «girl» what to have for dinner, and carne forth from the house. Too slow for us nowadays, because the f aster we're carried the less time...

...car would halt at once, and wait for her, while she shut the window, ... put on her hat and coat, ... went downstairs, ... found an umbrella, ... told the...have for dinner ... and came forth from the house. There is match and mismatch between what we hear and what we see. The commentary specifies a social...

...neighborliness of the Ambersons' little town with a conceit about the obligingness of a streetcar: the car was genially accommodating: a lady could whistle...to have for dinner, and came forth from the house. 74 Tarkington is out to charm us and is more than witty and skillful enough to succeed; the masterly...

...Magnificent Ambersons describes the 'accommodating' nature of the horse-drawn streetcar in North America: a lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window,...'girl' what to have for dinner, and came forth from the house.12 By the end of the century, however, the tempo of life was speeding up and public transportation...

...three dollars a week ; the horse cars which would wait for a lady who whistled from an upstairs window, "while she shut the window, put on her hat and cloak,...to have for dinner, and came forth from the house." He recalls the habit of serenading with such songs as Silver Threads Among the Gold, and Kathleen Mavourneen...