Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, White House newshawks knew, but Secretary Early's announcement took them by surprise. Night before Mrs. Roosevelt had stood beside the President at the official, reception for the Supreme Court. Then she slipped away, caught a midnight train for Manhattan and at 9 o'clock in the morning, in the library of the Roosevelt house on East 65th Street gave her daughter in marriage to John Boettiger. A clerk from the Marriage License Bureau had brought a license to the house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna...
Last week African blacks leaped up & down with excitement, British traders cheered and Scottish missionaries beamed broadly as a train tooted its whistle and chugged across the world's longest railroad bridge. Thus was railroad service inaugurated over the broad Zambesi River on a 33-span viaduct measuring more than two miles in length. The structure had taken two and a half years to build, had cost the Central African & Trans-Zambesi Railway Companies...
...Wednesday night has assured excellent opportunities for winter sport throughout New England. All through New Hampshire and western Massachusetts snow lies from 14 to 40 1-2 inches deep. Indications of fair weather for this weekend will make conditions ideal for skiing and snowshoeing. The Boston and Maine Snow Train runs to Greenfield. New Hampshire on Sunday. Other easily accessible places with deep snow are North Conway, Mt. Washington and Pinkham Notch...
...rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train. The result is a terrific battle in which McGregor dies, Forsythe gets wounded and young Stone redeems himself...
...mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers and let her beauty run to fat in order to train the young Louis for the role of Pretender. It did not matter that Louis was an eight-month child, and probably no blood relation of Bonaparte...