Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that...
...Copley Theatre for the first time on any stage, and for the unfortunate spectator who is forced to sit through its three lengthy acts, it becomes quite apparent why the play has never been produced before. Apparently Mr. Clive, emerging from the recent record run of "The Ghost Train" feels himself in a position where he may experiment with this and that, the experiment in this case being a venture into lush, melodramatic sentimentality...
Indications are that there will be about 1000 rooters on the special train from Bloomington on Thursday. Indiana's military band of nearly 100 pieces, which is reputed to be the best in the Big Ten Conference group, will also be on this train...
...Subscriber Heilner described his toothache cure as follows: "How could a man after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results...
...Watson has been with the Hearst publications for 28 years. Famed in reportorial annals was his interview with the train engineer 23 years ago after the disaster in the old train tunnels under Park Avenue, Manhattan. Out of his interview grew the movement that eventually rebuilt that haughty thoroughfare. Mr. Watson has been working since he was 13; has been with the new York American for about a quarter of a century; was its managing editor. He has served Mr. Hearst in many a capacity, likes to be called "special crusader...