Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solomon. In Tulsa, District Judge Horace D. Ballaine fretted over the custody of a car belonging to a couple awaiting their divorce, finally awarded it to the husband for business, to the wife for weekend shopping...
...Florida's Governor Fuller Warren reacted briskly to a 43-car parade of Ku Klux Klansmen through Tallahassee. He said he would demand a law preventing "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks . . . from parading in Florida...
...took 25 to 30 servants to staff the mansion. They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled to the ceiling, waited on Steelmaker Carnegie and his guests in the walnut-paneled library, took care of the vast heating plant. In the basement there is still a mining car, with its own track and turntable, to take coal from the bunker to the stoking floor. On cold days, it took a ton and a half of coal to heat the place...
Some of the boys started shooting craps in the washroom of car K2. The serious drinking went on in car K3. The boys had their wives' expectations and their reputation to live up to: after all, they had bragged as the years rolled by that they were the hell-raisingest outfit in the A.E.F. But after an hour or so the four sleeping cars became noisy with comfortable snores...
...hours before the President showed up to take the oath of office, the men of Battery D were in their seats in the stands. They rose as one man and yelled when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began...