Word: expressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incognito) and Mme. Lupescu were shepherded into the Paris Train de Luxe by Carol's officious Roumanian secretary. Throughout the night, all persons concerned jolted and jounced in the crosswise cubicles of that admirable and omniscient concern, La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-restaurants et Wagons-lits et des Grands Express Europ?...
...International Dining-car and Sleeping-Car Company Operating through European Express Trains. Incidentally about the only concern on friendly terms with all European Governments...
...kicking, bunting, bugling, a herd of over 400 wild elk entered town. There were other elk in the vicinity and these the newcomers soon joined. They had traveled across the continent, all the way from Moiese, Mont. (Flathead Indian Reservation), in 70 hours, riding in specially constructed, electrically lighted express cars. Their total carfare amounted to $14,000. Everyone of the bulls had been dehorned before being shown to his stall, for the comfort of his fellow passengers and the conductors...
...francs ever* exchangeable for a dollar in the history of the world. Then the firm of Morgan loaned the French Government $100,000,000; and one could get only some 14 francs for the dollar. Last spring the franc began to slip badly again. Last week the American Express Co., at Paris, was paying out approximately? 28 francs for the dollars which its clients smilingly proffered. In Les Nights Clubs Americains, atop Montmartre, the good-old-bad-old times had come again?though indeed the quarts of champagne in that vicinity were being held at 100 francs...
...would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such a variety of ways...