Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wales stood talking with his next oldest brother, Albert of York, at the station in London, last week, while his train began slowly to move, leaving him on the platform...
...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
Peasants stood all along the route of the funeral train, most of them barefoot and in homespun garments. All held bowls of holy water which they emptied reverently upon the slowly chuffing funeral train...
...Great Mail Robbery. Those who would renew their acquaintance with The Great Train Robbery of cinema's infancy may do well to contemplate The Great Mail Robbery, wherein armored trucks, machine guns, tear gas and other refinements of crime are employed in the Wild West as a background for old-fashioned vanquish-the-villain-hug-the-heroine melodramatics in modern clothes...
...bottles were placed butt on cap "they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...