Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the Moran gang had a bold plan to "get" Capone himself when he went to Chicago last month to testify in a U. S. court. Chicago police who met Capone's train unwittingly thwarted them...
Calvin Coolidge, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., started from his Northampton home last week to attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat?and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle...
...This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line bows in and backs out of the presence of that intangible essence that will insure them the envy of associates at home. The full length photograph, the feathers, the train, the reminiscences fondly embroidered with each succeeding year, complete a story that will transcend the immediate generation, whatever...
...mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...