Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of the troubled desert that is Europe today, a scene like a mirage confronts the traveler thirsty for freedom, hope and a decent glass of beer. An hour and a half by plane from pinched and drawn London, a day by train from harrowed, hungry Berlin, he suddenly finds freedom, hope and a very decent glass of rich, light beer-the biggest glass of beer in Europe...
...been a commonplace incident in the year 1893. A young Hindu lawyer, riding the train from Durban to Pretoria, would insist on sitting in a first-class compartment. Provincial constables would restore the situation to normal by ejecting 24-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi at the next stop, a dusty station near the remote Natal-Transvaal frontier...
...Naughty Sun. In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities." Though "relatively humble" people, Henry and Annette lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of more than 100). They raised four children in a swampy wasteland teeming with wild pigs, buffalo, cobras, scorpions, fleas, flies and ("most abundantly") leeches. Fever and dysentery were everyday matters-trifles compared with the cholera which, by slow degrees, killed their beautiful youngest child...
...matched almost pitch for pitch by the performance of Lionel "The Toy" Train. Train's fluid drive alone geared his pitches up to an estimated speed of six zwoncuses a minute...
Chuckle (Wy.) Bellylaugh drove in 21 of the Crimson runs. Sergeant James Toumey ran in the other two. The boatings: WE THEY Neverstall, jg Choo Handemedown, ss Choo Pooshemup, tony Train Stein, beer Smith, trom. Bear, woolly Punch, ugh Coxe, sic Brelis, spade Weather, wet Kops, ng Track, fast Cabot, lockout Altrocchi? Marx, engels