Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...
While matrons unavoidably trampled by police horses were rubbed with liniment, the Duke & Duchess slipped off from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
Spotted in Chicago boarding a train for Arizona, Illinois' old onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden cheerfully ex plained that inasmuch as his dairy farm near Rockford was submerged by water and ice, he had nothing to do but travel...
...shows a season, handles 50,000 birds, travels 30,000 miles a year. His fees for judging roughly cover his traveling expenses and the L. & N. is generous about leaves of absence because pigeon fanciers on the way to a show make a point of riding on the same train as the judge, usually take their stock with them in the baggage car. Judge Keifer has no time to write answers to the hundreds of requests for advice he gets from breeders every year but most of the letters stick in his head. He answers them verbally when he meets...
Delay In Denver, Colo., a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train arrived four hours late because the train repeatedly stopped for no apparent reason. Investigation disclosed that an elephant in the baggage car had spent the trip pulling the airbrake rope with its trunk...