Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week "the bugle which stopped the World War" was deposited at Les Invalides, the great Paris War Museum, where may also be seen the railroad car in which the Armistice was signed? the whole appropriately within a stone's throw of where Napoleon lies, locked in his enormous vault with the keyhole shaped like a letter...
Last week he apparently considered himself sufficiently recovered from a series of intestinal disorders to ride horseback once more. First, his motor car roared at top speed up the Corso Umberto Primo, dashed out the Porta del Popolo, and climbed the lovely heights of the Borghese Gardens, now perhaps the most beautiful public park in Rome. There, immaculate in formal riding costume, he stepped out. His horse was led up. A crowd of Fascists cheered as he climbed into the saddle...
...into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were two dirty and smallpox-pitted soldiers of Super-Tuchun Feng lolling in the single doorway...
...York University invented the "floating college," a college on a globe-circling steamboat. This project has yet to materialize (TIME, June 29). To Princeton University goes credit for the first "rolling course," a college course administered in a continent-touring Pullman car. The car will be specially designed to accommodate 22 professors, instructors and students. It will travel 10,000 miles. The course will be one in geology and mineralogy and the car will leave Princeton July 1 and stop at localities of geological interest for field trips...
...come a startling innovation. American residents have introduced poker as a rival of bridge in fashionable society, much to the discomfiture of stern old auctioneers. Newspaper report has it that bridge is hard put to compete with the western invader, so lately come from lumber camp and smoking car...