Word: dray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime...
...have in mind. It was on a winter day back in 1908. Late in the afternoon I crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze of snow, and towering there ten feet high, naked...
...time the statue was finished. It was 10 ft., 6 in. high, 6 ft. wide and weighed about 20 tons. With enormous difficulty it was hoisted to a dray and hauled by swaying spans of oxen all the way to Leghorn. For enlarging his studio, hiring servants and replanting trees from Florence to Leghorn, Sculptor Greenough sent Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load...
...tram and dray Australia's citizens flocked to Australia's polls last week to elect a new Parliament. The large turnout did not mean an equally large interest in the election, but merely an effort to avoid the $10 fine imposed on Australians entitled to vote who fail...
...November 1917, a hard, dark chunk of a man walked round & round a team of 34 dray horses at the foot of 132nd St., Manhattan, feeding each & every horse a sugar lump. On a tremendous trailer attached to the team was a submarine which had just been hoisted out of the Hudson River. The man turned and walked down the street, the 34 horses following him. Thus, while thousands jam-packed the sidewalks, did Truckman Henry Herbermann haul the German U-boat C-5 to Central Park to be used as a speaker's rostrum for the second Liberty...