Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They agree, while traveling, to stay in their seats in the Pullman, and not to walk out onto the back platform and wave their handkerchiefs idiotically at the yokels." (Insult to Mr. Harding...
Stormy weather was also responsible for the destruction of the Army Dirigible TCI, a 200,000 cubic foot airship, known as the " Pullman of the Sky" because of its wonderful construction and comfortably enclosed cabin. After a 14-hour night trip in terrible weather from Scott Field, Ill., to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, during which the rudder was out of commission for two hours, the dirigible was moored in apparent safety−only to be set on fire by a flash of lightning! Sergeant Harry Barnes of the Air Service and A. C. Maranville of the Goodyear Rubber Company, builders...
...admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...
...that "booze" and "real good beer" are available. Six dance halls thrive in this town of 400 that will play host on July 4 to the Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavyweight championship. Lesser details of the despatch revealed that eight miles of railroad track will be installed for Pullman parking space, the two schools will be turned into temporary lodging houses, canvas and wooden shacks are rising like weeds, and other arrangements are feverishly under way, at a cost of $250,000, to take care of the 50,000 citizenry expected for the battle...
...entire cost of the trip including railroad and pullman fares, board, lodging, guides, and horse and motor transportation has been estimated at about $800. Further details can be secured from Mr. Conaghie, who will be at the School of Landscape Architecture office, 1 Robinson Hall, from 10.30 to 11.30 o'clock daily except Sundays. The committee has announced that early applications will receive preference...