Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days it was the privilege and habit of the Tsars to stop their Imperial Train on the single track Trans-Siberian line at any point which fancy might dictate, while they picnicked, strolled in the woods, or received the homage of peasants. Meanwhile, for scores of miles up and down the line, local traffic would be suspended and of course all through express trains stopped...
...Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
Died. George White Doane, 74, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Amsterdam Gas Co.; of heart disease; on the 8:49 (a.m.) train from South Orange, N. J. An attempt to board the 8:33, his usual train to Manhattan, precipitated the heart attack...
...Manhattan last fortnight, George Hicks, 60, clumsy, careless, fell off a subway platform. Before he could scramble up the edge again, a train, like a big boa came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks...
...condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass and broke her arm. At the post he struck...