Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME and upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...
...Morrow represented the politically bewildered East and high finance. Newsgatherers waited eagerly for Mr. Morrow to come away after interviews at which it was certain there would have been give and take on the renowned Coolidge "choice" for 1928. But Mr. Morrow came forth in owlish silence, boarded a train for his ranch in Idaho, left the world none the wiser...
Stories. Paris newspapers burst out with hospitable salvos at once. One story that made a deep im pression told of a legionary whose first act was to ask for the next train to Baccarat. "Why go there?" he was asked. "I was nursed," he answered, "by a poor French family there, and I've got 10,000 francs for them, and can't wait to get it into their hands." Other stories described the emo tional reunions of French mothers with daughters and sons-in-law who had made them grandmothers of small Americans up to ten years...
...Friday they set out, the Mayor in a third-class coach, for Ireland, birthplace of Mr. Walker's father. Their boat-train stopped at the Welsh town of Llanfairpwyllcylghlantsillohogh, which not even the glib Walker tongue could surround. Welcomed in Dublin as a homeboy, the Mayor of New York admitted that his eyes were full of tears; but he retained enough presence of mind to tell reporters that if they asked him about Irish politics he would "throw them out of the window." He sped to the paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech...
...have got off the train at every station at which the train stopped and talked to the people from the old country, and in every single case the people were happy. There may, of course, be some grousers but they kept away and I am convinced that if a man cannot make good it is, in 95% of the cases, his own fault...