Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Wilcox stressed authenticity above all things. He borrowed Buckingham and St. James's Palaces, Windsor Castle. He persuaded Liverpool Museum to let him use the original, wheezing train which carried the real Victoria & Albert on their real honeymoon. The Royal Mews let him have the genuine Jubilee coach. He hired Dance Historian Lucile Marsh to puff in advance notices that the film's 19th Century dances were not only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from her prototype's journal, from...
...after his major-league playing career ended, Casey managed minor-league teams in Worcester (Mass.) and Toledo. In 1932 Brooklyn again brought him to the major leagues-as a coach. In 1934 he succeeded Max Carey as manager of the Dodgers, and, in the fall of 1936, after three indifferent seasons with bad material, the notably erratic Brooklyn directors replaced him with onetime Spitball Pitcher Burleigh Grimes...
...Cleveland Indians, after Casey Stengel's "delighted," only one major-league managerial job remained open: with the St. Louis Browns. Meanwhile, Infielder Tony Lazzeri, who was released by the New York Yankees to seek a manager's berth, last week settled down not as manager but as coach of the Chicago Cubs...
...passing the bucket to the I.C.C. once more. After two days' talk the conclave agreed to ask the I.C.C. for: 1) a flat 15% rise in general freight rates estimated to produce $459,500,000 a year in added revenue; 2) a ½?a mile rise in passenger coach fares to produce an additional $48,500,000 annually...
...highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands and barbecues, first by Indian runner, then in succession by pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping airplane into Bad Water, a brackish pool at Death Valley's lowest point. The fiesta was called the "Wedding of the Waters." Local citizenry hoped its offspring would be tourists...