Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alfred Pearce Dennis, 62, ranking Democratic member of the U.S. Tariff Commission; by jumping off a cliff into the sea; at Bailey Island, Maine. Professor, night watchman, brakeman, merchant, writer, he was a colleague of Woodrow Wilson in the faculty of Princeton University, later went to Smith College where he became the friend of a young lawyer, Calvin Coolidge. He was an investigator in Europe for the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, was appointed by President Coolidge to the Tariff Commission, which he once described to the Senate as a "debating society...
Obstetricians at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore last week were at first vexed by the labor of delivering twins from Mrs. Albert Forster, wife of a railroad brakeman. Then they were dumbfounded by the discovery that the twins were a monster joined abdominally by a tube more than a foot long. Finally the doctors were delighted: the twins lived after being cut apart...
Recently the newspapers carried a story about a girl in Missouri who won a $1,500 award from a railroad because a brakeman kicked her in the head to remove her from the path of an onrushing train...
...unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface: Mr. Haddock (Leon Errol) wrestling with a brakeman in an empty car; Mrs. Haddock (Zazu Pitts) overcome with seasickness induced by autosuggestion while the boat is still at the dock; both of them indulging in polite social chatter with a street-cleaner to whom they have been introduced by a taxidriver...
...stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...