Word: trained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small brown beast, spry as a witch and ugly as a gargoyle, was perched on the top of a freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...
Near Lexington, Ky., A. G. Bush, veteran railroad engineer, was driving along in his engine, pulling a train. He sneezed suddenly, at which his false teeth fell out of the window...
...surprised was Engineer Bush by this dismal accident that he drove half a mile before he remembered to stop his locomotive. He reversed his speed then and travelled back to the scene of the sneezing. All the passengers on the train as well as brakemen and conductors helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer...
Among the recent novels of Harvard alumni that have been finding favor with readers are "Ambition", by Arthur Train '96. "The House of Sun-Goes-Down", by Bernard De Voto '20, and "The Virgin Queene", by Hartford Powel...
...immediate cause was the formation of Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. with plans for a train & plane passenger service covering the U. S. (see p. 22). Five hundred thousand shares of T. A. T., Inc. common stock at no par value were offered on the New York curb market. They found plenty of takers at $25, quickly jumped to the vicinity of $30. Yet it was reported that $12.50 was the price at which T. A. T., Inc. was privately placed by underwriters...