Word: railed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant...
Seated on the rail of the greatest liner, coyly showing the rounded part of the famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings...
Russia's railroads were mortgaged by the Tsarist regime to fight Russia's battles. Many a U. S. citizen bought the bonds. Having overthrown the Tsarist regime, the Soviet repudiated all Tsarist debts. U. S. citizens sighed and put their Russian rail-road bonds away expecting never to think of them again except as quaint keepsakes...
...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...this procession were a number of personages known to readers of sporting pages by familiar nicknames that lend themselves readily to the usages of headline writers. Each delegation carried the banner of its sport. At the high altar rail stood Baseball, and Boxing, and Horse Racing and the rest--and no fire came from heaven...