Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, last week, progressed a spelling-bee held on the Utah to vary the monotony of the usual deck-games. Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah. Eighteen words chosen from a list containing such orthographic stumpers as "vilified," "picknicking," "Philippine," "harassed," were given to the contestants. The winners were Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. Their record: 14 right, four wrong...
Just before going on his holiday he had added to his "Hale's Tours" feature a moving picture he had seen in Pittsburgh, The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor...
Brisk and dapper in his striped suit, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...
...railway ran but two trains a day, from Sobriety to Dead River or Perdition, and the advertisement states that "Accidents by Collisions are entirely avoided, as no uptrains are run over the road." The train left Sobriety at 5 o'clock and by 8 o'clock had passed through Sippington, Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium...
...took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...