Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their
...fairgrounds were to be found exhibits of tickets, travel-folders, timetables, trunks, baggage, Pullman cai's, Pullman-car china, antique wooden rails, tiny reproductions of modern electric engines; collections of new and old railroad watches, telegraph instruments, telephones, canal boats, pictures of locomotives. Also a rickety-looking rod, the predecessor and progenitor of telegraph poles...
...silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every month for 20 years without damage to a single silken strand...
...engine, the "Isobel", has to take a back seat, and "Isobel" has captivated her audience as well as her engineer in a case of "love at first toot." But while Conklin and Bancroft are not always funny, they are always fast in a brand new comedy background, namely the railroad field which seems to have infinite possibilities, especially when this pair are out to make a run. Indeed, these two comedians seem to be out to undo the jinx that makes so many slapstick favorites of the footlights flops of the Kleig lights. They spare neither themselves nor each other...
...upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms getting maudlin over her. Casey finally challenges his rival to a wrestling match which looks discouraging for him of the shellacked...