Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
...Presidential train rolled into Minnesota a five-foot fiery KKK cross blazed near the railroad tracks...
...luncheon of Chicago's Executives' Club, 84-year-old Novelist Opie Read was a guest. He made a speech to 400 people, broadcast over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them...
Traveling from Indianapolis where they campaigned for the local Civic Theatre, Cinemactress Mary Pickford and Husband Buddy Rogers stepped off a train in Manhattan. Said she: "Buddy and I are planning a new home. . . . It won't be as pretentious as Pickfair. Mercy, no! Only four master bedrooms, and of course tennis courts, swimming pool and things like that...
...about such matters, and though Kiki's Memoirs (Black Manikin Press; Paris, 1930) and Hamnett's Laughing Torso (Long & Smith, 1932) have been published, it was to small audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material-the renamings of expatriate celebrities (Harold Stearns, Nancy Cunard, Homer Bevans, Ford Madox Ford), the retelling of the pranks, suicides, brawls that made up the life of the Quarter-were...