Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming committee, demanded that the mayor appear to greet Their...
Winnipeg. Despite a drizzling rain, the Queen ordered the top of their automobile lowered, smiled bravely though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...bridge fails, if a freight train gets shunted to the main line, or somebody leaves a bomb on the track, it will be 30 minutes before the train bearing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across Canada this week (see p. 22) comes upon the wreckage of its pilot train and the mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven...
...Train, bus, tug, trawler, clipper with bellied sail...
...lecture tours in Maine (the arctic villages made him imagine he was exiled to Siberia), out in the frontier West, Emerson all but forgot the Concord saints. The men in the Maine train he found "independent, with sufficient manners and more manly force than most of the scholars he had known. (A pity, but why deny it?)" The Westerners were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior...