Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a drawing room on an outbound train at Manhattan's 125th Street station was carried a case of Golden Wedding rye whiskey, one day last week." But it was not a Senator or a Governor or even a Mayor who was leaving town for a pleas ure jaunt. It was New York's nervous, hollow-eyed, pasty-faced little racketeer, Jack ("Legs") Diamond. He was going home to the Catskill Mountains. Dressed in a flashy coat, grey spats and a checked cap, carrying two novels (Jury of Death, Super-City), he had just been released from...
...community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children of the President's secretaries and aides- the three Akerson boys, John Marshall Newton, French Strother Jr., Dr. Boone's daughter Suzanne, and the son of Capt. Train. Afterwards all the White House lights were extinguished and President Hoover, carrying a candle like the others, led his small guests round and about through the darkened rooms singing carols. Mrs. Hoover at the end of the procession rounded up stragglers. When the lights Hashed up in the East Room...
...girl." A railroad train set matters right...
Panama, Albania, Norway, Bolivia, Irish Free State, Nicaragua, Ecuador, South Africa. A special train brought New Yorkers to the affair. Tall Miss Doherty-who speaks seven languages-wore a number of bouquets, tossed them bridewise to friends. Favors were drawn from a miniature cathedral in the centre of the supper table. Music was furnished by Sidney's Orchestra, the band selected to play at last year's White House holiday party. Estimated cost of the Doherty debut...
Last week it was revealed that Yale has an undergraduate who spends three and one-half hours every day on the New Haven & Hartford railroad. Like many another Yale student, he sleep and studies on the train. Like few others, he works eight hours a day in Manhattan, commutes to and from college. He gets three hours of sleep between classes in New Haven, keeps a scholastic average of 70%. Yale keeps his name "strictly confidential...