Word: compartmentized
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One night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number...
Last week a twinkling-eyed, eccentric little man arrived at Paris and was greeted by a sprinkling of Russian Communists, a lone detective and an official of the French Foreign Office. Long after his train drew in, the little man remained seated in his compartment. When the crowd of travelers...
Finally, although the seas were still troublesome, the two giant cranes Monarch and Century were brought to the spot and succeeded in catching the ends of the slings which the divers had adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they...
With haste and fervor Herr Stresemann, thrusting that trade treaty sop at the importunate Tchitcherin, stayed not upon the order of bolting for his train. On the platform stood the British, French and Italian Ambassadors to Germany, their faces wreathed in smiles. They whispered into the ear of Herr Stresemann...
The American people are in truth, forcing existence to become a continual observance of creeds. The gentleman of the smoking compartment must air his doctrine of motors and money, while the intellectual sniffs and tries to read his Proust in comfort. There can be no blended tastes, no unconventional tastes...