Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the night he studied maps, despatches, tried to gauge the strategy and numbers of the so-called "People's Army" which for several months has been advancing slowly southward along the railway from the region of Peiping (once Peking). Next day the president set off by armored train for the battle area, near Chengohow. Subsequent despatches reported quaintly that "the Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing at present for geographical reasons." Startling was a Japanese despatch from Hankow reporting a great "People's Army" victory in Honan Province, and streams of wounded Nationalists...
Among the attaches on the train is Billy Murray, former Harvard backfield star, who has seen Michigan in every one of its games this fall. A short talk with him has convinced this correspondent that it is his bounden duty to warn all Harvard followers not to be deluded into giving any large odds on the Harvard team. The Crimson has just cause to look with confidence on the approaching struggle, but it is Murray's well considered opinion that Michigan has far more power than recent dispatches from Ann Arbor would seem to indicate...
...practice will be conducted in the rays of the headlights, as well as rehearsal of the numbers which will be played on its trip. Eighty of the band, including the leader and manager, will make the trip to Ann Arbor, occupying three cars of the Leavitt and Peirce special train which leaves Boston Friday...
...nice gentleman, Foreign Minister August Zaleski. He was in Bucharest, last week, to keep warm negotiations which have long been simmering toward a Rumanian-Polish treaty of friendship and arbitration. From Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski of Poland he brought to King Mihai some brightly painted wooden toys; a railway train (considerably inferior to last year's); a big book of Polish fairy tales, The Story of the Dwarfs and the Little Orphans, translated into English-the language Mihai most easily reads, usually talks...
Princeton Junction, N. J., has an unpredictable railroad platform. Upon it you may see anybody from a debutante to an astronomer, for Princeton University is nearby. But always you will see, getting on the early morning commuters' train, getting off the early evening commuters' train, a neat, plump little man for whom a robins-egg Rolls-Royce stands at stately attention; for whom a footman leaps from the box; for whom the train will back up if necessary to set this important passenger down at the precise spot he wishes. Plump and neat, he trots between Rolls-Royce...