Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
Newspapers throughout the U. S. interpreted the Court's decision as a victory for George, a yardman for the Southern Railroad when in 1903 its crack mail train tore down the side of White Oak Mountain, plunged off a curving trestle near Danville, Va. (see cut). George claimed that he helped pry nine bodies out of the wreckage, then went home inspired to tell the tragedy in verse. In a Federal District court he won his fight for royalties.* But when Victor appealed, the decision was reversed and his claim dismissed as fraudulent (TIME...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...softly out of Manhattan one afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank...
When today has joined the endless train...