Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beer in Balmoral. Nearly everyone was staying in the Mapes Hotel with an obvious exception: Clark Gable, his wife, children, servants, gardener and dog took over Reno's closest approximation to Balmoral Castle, where the King likes to retire in the evening with a carload of cronies and a case of beer...
...mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
...Cubans were certain at first that they had shot down one of the clandestine planes that fly from Florida to drop incendiary bombs on sugar fields or make similar mischief. Only 200 ft. from where the plane came down, the Castro soldiers captured a carload of Cubans, who could have been waiting for a pickup. But after Shergales turned up at Havana police headquarters, well dressed and confident, Castro's newspaper, Revolution, dropped the whole story. One theory was that the flight was faked to give Castro one more small-plane yarn to howl about; another, that...