Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover special for Brule left Washington on Saturday evening. Newsgatherers joked about some "lively and impressive impromptu ovations" which National Committeeman C. Bascom Slemp had been overheard to say should be arranged at station platforms across the land. When the train reached Baltimore, this sly, Slempish suggestion was proved superfluous. Some 200 quite distinguished Baltimoreans were there with a really spontaneous demonstration. At York, Pa., and Harrisburg it was the same...
King, Dictator, President. When spruce, bronzed King Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...
...Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
...Pittsburghers boarded a special train, sped to New York to study metropolitan airports, carry back ideas for Pittsburgh's new $2,000,000 landing field...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...