Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Charleston's grimy old railroad station, boarded his Atlantic Coast Line special for Washington. Shus-sh! hissed the engine. Then shushushushushushs and the train rolled out of the shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train, and this time the Special pulled out for good. The President settled back...
Harvard Hall does not fulfill these regulations in every detail, there being only one egress, and the stairway being too narrow...
...proof that the ancient Chinese were by no means lacking in a sense of humor is a series of caricatures portraying the various types of poets. Notwithstanding the detail of slanted eyes, many of our contemporary types from long-haired Bohemians to gray-bearded George Bernard Shaws may be recognized with the help of an active imagination...
...last week's journey was more than a junket. It took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins...
...Laning mural, showing the building of the Pacific Railroad with Irish and Chinese labor (see cut), got by Commissioner Reimer last week only after the artist had made many a change of detail to bring the whole into accord with that official's idea of U. S. history. Pointing to the drawing, Commissioner Reimer said...