Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours while fog-bound commuters, jamming every compartment, sang "Who's Afraid of the Big Black...
...Chevalier d'Industrie (confidence man) who so recently as 1926 cashed a forged check for more than a million francs. They think he is the "Handsome Alexandre" who twice escaped from agents of the Sûreté Générale who were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos...
...September 27, 1903, a Sunday train, No. 97, which ran over the Southern Railroad from Washington to Atlanta, was late at Lynchburg and in making up lost time, its engineer ran it at a high rate of speed on a steep grade down one side of White Oak Mountain, just north of Danville, Virginia. As the train reached a curving trestle, it left the tracks and plunged into a ravine below. The crew was killed and the train was completely destroyed. Quite a number of songs were written by different persons to commemorate this sad event...
...sent back to Bucharest. Assassin Constantinescu, who after police hustled him to safety had spent several hours puffing out his chest and posing for photographs, was taken the same day to Ploesti near Bucharest for trial. The murdered Premier's brother-in-law, Radu Polizu, took the morning train out from Bucharest and burst wild-eyed into the Sinaia stationmaster's office where Assassin Constantinescu was held. He whipped out a small revolver and sent two bullets whistling round the prisoner. Bang! Bang! Neither of them took effect. Radu Polizu was disarmed and hustled out of the room...
Down out of a squally sky one morning last week coasted an oil-streaked airplane to land on Miami's Municipal Airport. Out jumped two grinning occupants, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis and Helen Richey. For ten days-while an Armenian archbishop was being murdered, a train collision was killing 200 persons in France, a blizzard was sweeping the East, George Dunlap was winning his eighth midwinter golf tournament, a Rumanian premier was being assassinated, the Metropolitan Opera was opening, Jockey Jack Westrope was riding his 300th winner-they had been flying around in circles to set a new women...