Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railroad train skyhigh, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts. Not all the Jews, of course...
...sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
Canadians are quite used to seeing Prime Minister Mackenzie King* walk around unguarded. Many an Ottawan has had his first glimpse of the P.M. as he got off a train, ambled slowly through Union Station with only a secretary in attendance. He likes to pop in on parties unannounced; at one gathering in Ottawa a fortnight ago his presence was not noticed until he came up behind another guest with a platter of snacks and said: "Wouldn't you like one of these? They're quite good...
Craft in a Cave. Shipped north, Greening bolted from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...