Railroad Presidents Riddle

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

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

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

I just wanted to get home to ______, my wife

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

I thought that was wrong, but I kept on ______

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.

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 ______.

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

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

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 ______.

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