Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written in great letters on the lable. Just like the writing on the coat of many colors, he thought. He saw it all in terms of the old Bible stories. He was a prophet and the mantle had fallen upon him and he had come to Heaven in a chariot of fire. His heart grew glad within him and he wondered at the infinite goodness of the Lord who had brought such wonders to pass...
...town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro businessmen offered prizes to winners of chariot races, mulecart races, goatcart races; races...
...intellectual life from the earliest times. In all sacred and profane literature the horse has been the intimate friend of man, and it has been his mission to take upon his broad shoulders the load that had become too heavy for his master. The sun itself travelled in a chariot drawn by the most beautiful and the swiftest horses...
...when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap the two best players of the rival football team. The football players kidnap Chico and Harpo. Harpo and Chico saw their way out. Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot (see front cover). After Harpo has made one touchdown by scattering banana peels in the way of the opposing team, all four Marx brothers ride up the field in their refuse wagon and put down several balls for several more touchdowns...
...simple as to tie up with the wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker...