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Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
Scattered Nicaraguans of no identifiable faction became so incensed that they fired in the general direction of a trainload of U. S. marines moving from Chinandega to Leon. No hair of a U. S. head was injured but U. S. news organs favorable to the Coolidge-Kellogg policy began to whoop up war: "American marines run the gauntlet of a leaden hail. . . . Bullets plowed through the wooden coaches of the train. . . . The marines' commander organized a punitive expedition and instructed his men to chase, shoot or capture the attackers...
Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...
...haired German Jew, low of collar, loose of tie-seemingly no great one. Yet at Max Reinhardt's beck there had come to Salzburg not only a world of celebrities but the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Male Choral Society, the famed Oscar Ziegler Rose Quartet, and a trainload of minor operatic and dramatic stars, stage hands, electricians, scene painters. A majority of these normally well paid minions of Art rendered notable homage to Max Reinhardt's genius of appearing gratis at the operas, concerts, recitals of his festival. Not only was Everyman played tut Turandot and Ariadne...
Drifting. This is another of those pictures on which the Chinese Government, if there is any at the moment, could write a note demanding $6,000,000 or a trainload of smoked salmon by way of reparation. It shows just how nasty the Chinese nature is when it sets about peddling opium through the agency of a beautiful young woman. Miss Priscilla Dean is the young woman. She will probably peddle the picture, dope and all, around the country with considerable success...