Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speeding from Constantinople the famed Simplon-Orient Express picked up a royal saloon car at Bucharest last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...
That evening it was discovered that the percolator had been left connected too long, had run down the battery of the royal car until no current remained to light the lights.* Resigned, Her Majesty went to bed at dusk, awoke next morning as her train entered Paris, after 48 hours of travel...
...royal car, antiquated, was not supplied with a dynamo to charge the battery, as are all modern railroad cars. The trainmen, louts, did not attempt to rig up emergency lights connected to the batteries of other cars on the train...
...hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my sleeping compartment a silk-hatted delegation of welcome from President Doumergue. Discomfited but not nonplused I dressed hastily and managed to receive my well-wishers just before my car was switched onto a train destined for Calais...
...tunnel of Ricken, in Switzerland, last week, a freight train stopped, filled the air with dense, deadly carbon monoxide gas; nine railroad workers, trapped, suffocated...