Railroad Presidents Riddle
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I was in a hurry to get uptown to my ______ so I decided to take the subway from Grand Central

apartment

I’m just an ordinary guy named Charley, thirty-one years ______ old

not

I was wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw hat with a fancy ______

band

I just wanted to get home to ______, my wife

<p>Louisa</p> Signup and view all the answers

I’ve been in and out of Grand Central hundreds of times, but I’m always bumping into new doorways and ______

<p>stairs</p> Signup and view all the answers

I thought that was wrong, but I kept on ______

<p>walking</p> Signup and view all the answers

THE presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack © NCERT of timetables that there are only two.But not to be republished I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station. Yes, I’ve taken the obvious step: I talked to a ______ friend of mine, among others.

<p>psychiatrist</p> Signup and view all the answers

He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to ______.

<p>escape</p> Signup and view all the answers

Well, who doesn’t? Everybody I know wants to ______, but they don’t wander down into any third level at Grand Central Station.

<p>escape</p> Signup and view all the answers

My stamp collecting, for example; that’s a ‘temporary refuge from ______.’

<p>reality</p> Signup and view all the answers

Well, maybe, but my grandfather didn’t need any refuge from reality; things were pretty nice and peaceful in his day, from all I hear, and he started my ______.

<p>collection</p> Signup and view all the answers

President Roosevelt collected stamps too, you know. Anyway, here’s what happened at Grand Central. One night last summer I worked late at the ______.

<p>office</p> Signup and view all the answers

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