Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken off the train, charged with assault, Porter Smith protested that he had been arranging baggage for the woman, that Conductor English had started the fight. New York Central officials were grieved to announce that Porter Smith had become "mentally unbalanced...
...engagement, beginning Sept. 26, was to cause the Germans to draw their divisions from farther west along the front to hold the A. E. F. here and thereby make the simultaneous British and French offensives that much easier. During the fighting General Pershing's headquarters were aboard his train at Souilly. More than 1,000,000 U. S. soldiers took part in this engagement, captured 26,000 prisoners, suffered 117,000 casualties. To the infantry, to the air service, to the medical corps went Pershing praise. Singled out for special mention were the "Lost Battalion," Lieut. Samuel Woodfill and Sergeant...
Subway Express (Columbia). Murder, and the detection of the murderer, in a subway train full of passengers in its run between 14th and 145th Streets, Manhattan, was accomplished by the authors of this piece with such credibility and pace, bit-part humor and rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...singer's Italian. She telephoned a neighbor, asked her to mind the children-Helen, 9, Charles, 6. She thought it might be wiser not to try to explain to her husband, Nathan Wallack, busy at his radio-supply store. She packed a bag, scuttled for the first train. Eighty other women hoped to sing in that one performance of A'ida but Housewife WTallack won the contest with her strong, clear tones. Asked for an interview, Impresario Paul Sydow refused in her behalf. Said he: "I don't want her to go like Marion Talley. Besides...
...Paoli, Pa., Edward Walters, 15, walked into a store, calmly cleaned out the contents of the cash-register, marched out again. Chased by a policeman, he fled along a railroad embankment, when suddenly he caught sight of an express train bearing down on him and his pursuer from behind. Realizing that the policeman was unaware of the express, he turned, tackled the officer, rolled down the embankment with him, where he was arrested. In court, Edward Walters returned the stolen money, heard himself praised as a lifesaver, received from the policeman money enough to get back to Cleveland, his home...