Word: buckboard
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...store or a pieceworker in a local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were always things we were going to get anyway," recalls Margaret Smith. "Mother always got my clothes too big so I would grow into them-how well I remember...
...political wagon train led by California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight has been beset by more breakdowns in recent months than a three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat...
Around the man in the buckboard in the dark night hung the gathering storm of change. It was Sept. 14, 1901. Eight days before, in Buffalo, the old century's President William McKinley had been shot by an anarchist at. an international festival of peace and commerce, and now McKinley was dying, the third U.S. President to be assassinated in 36 years. Theodore Roosevelt had made a quiet point in a note to a friend: "It was in the most naked way an assault not on power, not on wealth, but simply and solely upon free government, government...
...other hand, is caused by no lack of affection. The script is a sound piece of work, and Director Delmar Daves has generally made the most of it, and the most of some heart-catching country in Wyoming. What is wrong is the attempt to hitch a buckboard to a diesel. City thoughts from the 20th century keep popping out of these hayseed heads like fireplugs out of the prairie; and toward the climax, when Borgnine goes berserk with jealousy, the moviegoer may get a weird sensation that he is watching a production of Othello in ranch pants...
...special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets of Manhattan in a buckboard with a kegful of gold pieces between his knees, left behind a trail of $50 bills whenever he hit town. In 1941 Scotty broke down and confessed that the gold mine was a myth; he had been grubstaked "for laughs" by the late multimillionaire. Chicago Insurance-Tycoon Albert Johnson...