Word: expressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant incident in this connection last week, was the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg. "Due to worn and obsolete equipment" ran the verdict; and railway officials hastened to point out that new equipment cannot be bought unless the fare increases advised by Mr. Gilbert are granted. Since 25 passengers on the wrecked train were killed, the lesson taught by Death seemed likely to sink...
...little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens...
...Imperial Train on the single track Trans-Siberian line at any point which fancy might dictate, while they picnicked, strolled in the woods, or received the homage of peasants. Meanwhile, for scores of miles up and down the line, local traffic would be suspended and of course all through express trains stopped...
...condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass and broke her arm. At the post he struck...
...Railway Express. According to secret information to the New York World, the U. S. railroads as a group next March will pay $100 per share for all the assets of the American Railway Express Co. Express Company stockholders expected...