Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years. Cried Mr. Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight out old-fashioned gambler, I wouldn't know one if I met him on the road labeled with box car letters...
...being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when he captured a valuable pawn, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. His Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard system. Two days...
...probably be called a hypocrite for leaving the pulpit to take this job. A fellow wrote me I'd go to hell for it. Maybe he's right. If he is, I won't be travelling a lonesome road...
...Evanston, Ill., one Pauline Stasiak smashed her car into that of one Peter Pennacchia, backed away, drove off. Mr. Pennacchia left his wreck in the road, went to his garage and obtained his other car, drove around the corner and was again smashed into by Miss Stasiak...
Then while the Vagabond was waiting to start on the royal road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...