Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter told that Trotsky's departure on the day scheduled was prevented by 10,000 sympathizers who bought tickets at the station from which he was scheduled to leave Moscow and then stood like a herd of cows upon the tracks so that his train could not leave. Next day 47 sympathizers were arrested for loitering near his house. Finally, continues the letter: "The police agents threatened to take Trotsky [from his house] by force. . . . Trotsky refused to go. The police picked up his overcoat and began to force him into it. His wife tried to communicate with somebody...
...Finally they dragged Trotsky out of his house by main force, put him in an automobile and drove him at high speed to the Faustovo station, forty miles from Moscow...
...very interesting supplement to the CRIMSON poll," he continued, "would be to take votes at various other places such as the Harvard Square subway station from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, or a corner drug store, or a popular cafeteria. The net result of these different polls would represent a cross section of public opinion and would be a real service to democracy...
Love and Learn. Chilling, blonde, Esther Ralston maintains her clotheshorse position in the records of Paramount in this odd little piece wherein her efforts are aimed at the prevention of a parental separation. By plunging, in her straight eight, through the front of the police station, the young lady manages to get to jail, there overhears the details of a conspiracy to drag the young and charming judge who sentenced her into a badger-game.* She goes to his room, prevents compromise, reveals the plot, wins love. A divorce is prevented, her adventures having kept father and mother together...
Bitten. In Chicago Frank Martin, 36, a hobo, lying down drunk in a police station to sleep by the stove near a big, muzzled airedale, bit the dog, was fined $200 (not for this act, but for violating the prohibition laws...