Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before going on to West Point to attend the graduation exercises at the U. S. Military Academy. By the time he returns to Washington the Shrine...
Before the delegates were all assembled it was apparent that they would have no trouble in writing their creed. As they dropped off the train, one after another cried, as if with a common inspiration: "Save the Constitution...
...writer thinks you have been sufficiently inspired, he orders you to attend a class in Harvard 5 where you can hear more about it. This along with the Confidential Guide is the chief way in which the Faculty supports the CRIMSON. Trusting that I have now earned a free train ride on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, I would like you all to be at track 23. South Station at 10 o'clock this morning...
...time passed and train service came to be taken for granted, railroad advertising concerned itself largely with the tourist trade. Pictures of Nature's grandeur, of Yellowstone geysers, California trout fishermen, New Mexico Indians, Florida bathing girls, New England sailboats, loomed large in railroad copy. "Vacationland" became a copywriter's cliché. There were exceptions in the form of notable institutional campaigns. Lackawanna invented "Phoebe Snow," the girl who traveled "The Road of Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures...
Sixty years ago the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's prime sales talk to prospective passengers was that its trains had been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...