Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, if timid Mr. Caspar Milquetoast should sit down next to him in a train and commence, out of nervousness, to talk about the weather...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...Denver Zoo received from Major-General Butler last week a request for a young bald eagle which he could train to appear on lecture platforms with him. Zoo Director Clyde Hill, perplexed, inspected his eagles, replied that a bald eagle is virtually indistinguishable until, at the age of about two years, its head feathers turn white...
...Carbon, Ind. (pop. 476), the postmaster protested that railway mail clerks have not been throwing the Carbon mail off the train. The mail clerks explained that when the wind is from the northwest it blows the locomotive smoke in the mail coach door and they cannot see Carbon...
...remained in the clubhouse for nearly five hours and then left on his special train for Hyde Park, where he will spend a few days before returning to Washington...