Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse when they saw one, tried to see one, elbowing one another, as 20 nimble three-year-olds paraded to the barrier...
...Berlin, Samson Koerner, heavyweight champion pugilist of Germany, stood upon a railroad platform, about to depart for Leipzig to box Champion Clementel of Switzerland. His sparring partner, one Max Dickmann, wished him aufwiedersehen, put his arms about him, gave him a hug. One of Koerner's ribs snapped. The bout was postponed...
...butler, English of course, and a Swedish maid who are left by their mistress to attend the wants of a newly-married couple. Mr. and Mrs. George Howell: a morning paper containing accounts of a robbery of a ruby necklace from a Mrs. Pembroke of Boston, and of a railroad accident on the Boston to New York line--these are the first clues. The young wife has been deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes...
...University eight-oar upstream, four miles, from Red Top to the railroad bridge...
...story by Reporter Jack De Witt of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...