Word: tie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
...tie across the tracks near a curve and then went into the bushes to wait. A few minutes before the express arrived, a freight train came puffing up to the obstruction and its engineer got out of his cab and pushed the tie down into the bushes. Matt Fisher was about to put it back where he wanted it when some trainmen who had heard his dog barking, found him sitting in the shrubbery. They asked him what he was doing and Matt Fisher, sucking on a cigaret, told them...
Smartly clad in cool fawn colored lounge suit, soft collared shirt and pastel tie, His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, sprucely returned to Spain last week, refreshed and tingling from a plunge into London's famed "Season...
Captain Loewenstein, said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...
...months ago Bela Kun was arrested in Vienna, Austria (TIME, May 7), and last week his trial began. He wore a red tie, the virile emblem of his militant Communism. Reeking with wood violets, he disconcerted his judges, drowned the musty odors of the courtroom, and recalled that Wilhelm II, onetime Kaiser and All Highest, esteemed wood violet as a second best perfume to his favorite Kolnisches Wasser or Eau de Cologne...