Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last fortnight, after a day in Louisville together, Mrs. Taylor complained of a headache and General Denhardt took her out for some country air. Turning in a schoolyard five miles outside La Grange, his automobile battery went dead. Mrs. Taylor went to a nearby filling station for help. She looked, to a farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down...
...Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward the filling station to look for a glove. As Farmer Baker was returning with a lantern, the messenger and a mechanic appeared with the battery. The four men walked up the road, found nothing, went back and installed the battery. That done, they again set out to look for Mrs. Taylor. Two hundred yards...
Foreign Minister Kánya hustled off by a midnight train to make sure that Budapest would give Count and Countess Ciano the most superlative of welcomes. They slept most of the night in their private car in Vienna Station, then slid comfortably off to be greeted at Hungary's border by deafening peasant cheers, repeated at every station. Alighting at Budapest amid such a wild ovation as only emotional Hungarians can outpour, Countess Ciano kissed a small Budapest lass with Latin warmth and cried, "This kiss means Italy's love for all Hungarian girls...
...Hungarian capital's school children had been let out for the day and marshaled as a double Lane of Honor extending from the railway station to the Dunapalota Hotel. Through this the Cianos drove beneath banners reading "LONG LIVE MUSSOLINI! LONG LIVE HUNGARY'S MIGHTY FRIEND!" At the Parliament Building only Hungarian Socialist Deputies, who can never forget that Fascism's founder was once Italy's fieriest Socialist, absented themselves but other Deputies and Cabinet Ministers cheered like whooping schoolboys. When Count Ciano appeared in the Diplomatic Box, he was addressed from the rostrum by Speaker...
Tomorrow at 9 o'clock the squad, together with the Jayvee team, and the Freshman, Jayvee, and Varsity soccer teams, leaves Back Bay station on their special train for New Haven. The football team will be quartered at the Choate School as usual, and will adhere to its time-honored custom of drinking champagne toasts to the last winning captain, John H. Dean '33, the "next winning captain," Jim Gaffney, and Coach Dick Harlow...