He jumped to his feet
Gave a lady his seat—
I'm a liar, but don't it sound well.
—Oliver Goldsmith, page 34.
SARDINE-CAR. A term of endearment given to crowded street cars.
Marcus Aurelius thus describes the sardine-car in his "Meditations"—see page 946—as follows:
The sardine-cars consist of fifty people trying to squeeze into a space that was built only for a Pajama hat and two newspapers.
The seats in the sardine-cars run sideways; the passengers run edgeways, and the life insurance agents run any old way when they see these cars coming.