Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "street-car".
It shows that while Filipino and American may be exchanged, man for man, in the light jobs, as street-car operators, three to four Filipino track labourers are required to do the work that in America one white man does.
Usually he saw grown people in the mass, which is to say, they were virtually invisible to him, though exceptions must be taken in favour of policemen, firemen, street-car conductors, motormen, and all other men in any sort of uniform or regalia.
The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
She worked the conversation round to Bible history and triumphantly demanded whether we knew that Sodom and Gomorrah are towns to-day, and that a street-car line is contemplated to them from some place or other&mdash.
He simply parked the car, walked two blocks to a street-car line, got on a car and rode.
Think of my great crusades about street-car companies, red-light districts and home-grown vegetables.
At the end of the first week he decided that the street-cars and sole leather were less expensive than taxicabs, as his funds were running perilously low.