Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the United States is as much respected as the President of Mexico or the King of England, whether he rides in a million-dollar train or a Ford...
...that Mr. Carroll should be removed from hospital to penitentiary, should change from patient to prisoner. While his wife protested against the "inhumanity" to the prisoner, while his brother described the removal order as coming with "brutal suddenness," Mr. Carroll was taken to Atlanta, where an ambulance met his train at the station and took him to the prison...
Watch Mr. Warner when the train leaves the station. He moves unobtrusively through his car?it may be the French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...groups are often disheartening. But even considering this, one can only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...