Word: chuff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounded the rear platform. Carefully primed as to his whereabouts, Governor Landon declared: "I am very glad to have the opportunity of starting my campaign in this splendid Republican county of Morgan. . . . There are many things which I would like to talk to you about but time is short. . . ." Chuff-chuff-and the special was on its way to Sterling, where another crowd and another brass band turned out at the station. With "sugar beets" ringing in his ears, Nominee Landon stepped out on the rear platform to declare: "I know this is one of the fine agricultural counties...
...Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President and the diplomats agreed last week. The august audience saw a French train of 1895 chuff into a station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with a hose. Today Auguste Lumière is dead and Louis tinkers with cameras and projectors for "three dimensional cinema." In another 40 years Europe and the President of France may or may not again honor Lumière whose...
Famed is New York Central's advertising slogan: The Water Level Route-You Can Sleep. The implication is that passengers on the Pennsylvania, New York Central's great rival, are kept awake as their trains chuff up and over the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and Chicago. The same implication, to a lesser degree, works against Baltimore & Ohio whose line roughly follows that of the Pennsylvania through the mountains. Last week B. & O. made a move to take itself out of the shadow of the New York Central's advertising...
...Kohler Co. would have had to shut down its steam pumping plant and the model village which Walter Jodok Kohler built for his workmen would have been left without a drop of water. But last week, in spite of the agreement, strike pickets halted the engine, forced it to chuff back to Sheboygan with its car of coal...
When shortly before midnight the Democratic special rumbled out of the Albany yards of the New York Central and started to chuff uphill toward Schenectady, Governor Roosevelt was abed in his own room on the private car Pioneer. In the car with him were his son James, just recovered from an attack of "nervous exhaustion," his daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall, a chef and two porters. In the three Pullmans ahead were Milton Maclntyre, the Governor's press repre sentative. Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the "brain trust" which supplies the Governor with economic data, advises him on speeches...