Word: choo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kerchoo! Kerchoo-choo...
Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
...corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody's Doin' It Now, I Want To Be in Dixie, At the Devil's Ball, the score of a Ziegfeld Follies and two eminently successful musical comedies. In 1917, he wrote a bugle song...
...Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under...