Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrilled by the beauty of the scenes of Montana that I almost took the first train back to that best-of-all states-we're railroad people, and have tried quite a few . . . When my husband saw the picture of the Bitterroots, he spoke with such feeling and nostalgia: "That's just the way it looks-I've gazed on that scene a thousand times," etc. . . . Thank you, and our sincere congratulations to Mr. Smith on his excellent photography...
Quietly boarding a train's third-class carriage in his old Alsatian home town of Gunsbach, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 80, some four decades after renouncing already notable careers in music and philosophy to become a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa, rolled off to London. Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton...
Spare the Rod. Historian Davis has unearthed some strange phrenological lore. There was, for instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...
...Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station to note the Princess' tensely clenched hands and nervous glances as she stepped off the train. Something...
...Train the Remnant. Last week, as it began its 88th year, Clarke was already embarked on a centennial fund-raising campaign for $3,000,000. At the head of the campaign was another distinguished former board president and teacher, who met her future husband while she was on the faculty. In spite of the high place to which marriage took her, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has remained devoted to Clarke. "I never hear a deaf child," she once wrote, "that my heart does not go out to it. I breathe a prayer that fortune may favor it by bringing...