Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...
Profoundest silence lay over all Turkey like a pall of death. Not a train ran. Not a boat sailed. Not an airplane flew. Not a factory hummed. Not a siren shrieked, nor a whistle blew. Men neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...
...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...
...Train of Tutts...
...under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train was missed by a paper plant working 24 hours a day to publish a morning and evening newspaper to the sum of 700,000 daily copies...