Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following him. They got enough to make headlines out of one sensational charge: that Laurence Steinhardt, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, had provoked Communist-action there by lending himself to a "rightist coup." When the reporters pressed him for details, Wallace suddenly remembered, that he "had to catch a train...
...Then the train to Moscow pulled out of the station...
...instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over the globe-by plane, train, boat, canoe, mule, and on foot-to bring back specimens...
...Fine Arts, Manhattan's Metropolitan and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute buy up the best, was a familiar (and faintly angelic) detachment in their expressions: the off-guard pensiveness of girls who think themselves alone and unobserved-dressing and undressing, yawning, idly reading, or waiting for a train or subway...
...daughter rushed Lord Orris off to the nearest movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles, actually shooting at 60 miles an hour. So clever of them. And the brave man who jumped on to the moving train. . . ." Thenceforth, mad Lord Orris adored everything from Hollywood-except Walt Disney cartoons, which he said fretfully were "too much like real life...