Word: carting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Nicholas Cuneo, 72, "Banana King"; in Jersey City, after a long illness. Arrived by steerage from Italy 60 years ago, he pushed a cart of bananas through Chicago streets, came to Manhattan, entered the wholesale fruit business. He refused to enter the United Fruit Co. combination, became their largest independent competitor...
...soap, a long cart rope, a frying pan and kettle...
...second Fogg Museum archaeological expedition to Western China is now in Pekin, preparing for a long journey to the interior provinces by cart and camel. America has lagged behind in Asiatic research, and only now is undertaking to train young men in Asiatic study and to give them field work and opportunities of thorough research...
General Wu received the travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...