Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last walked Crown Princess Juliana, her bridal gown of ivory satin in classical lines, her veil of tulle embroidered with the silver roses of Lippe-Biesterfeld, her train 18 feet long carried by four chil dren, and her sash of orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there...
...Hague bedlam, the wedding procession wound its way amid Dutch ohs and ahs at the brilliant cavalcade. Then, after luncheon at the Royal Palace, the Prince Consort & Crown Princess managed the impossible. With the connivance of the world press, the newlyweds, ostensibly bound for Innsbruck, boarded a train at The Hague and entirely disappeared. Even the New York Times, ordinarily intolerant of mysteries, headlined benignly, "JULIANA AND PRINCE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR...
This New Hampshire town offers very good open slope skiing and practice slopes with a ski tow. Norwood Cox, Coop ski expert, is here to give instruction. Close to Cambridge, it can be reached either by auto or train...
...regards these sports Harvard must avoid any attitude that smacks of "keeping up with the Joneses", but at the same time it is unfair to men who are sincerely interested in doing serious athletic work to let them train under inferior coaches and with second rate equipment. Although the coaching is excellent at the present time, the college is in great danger of losing its best men merely because it has had to cut their salaries, and rely on graduate student assistance. If the salaries that Harvard pays its coaches are substantially lower than those offered by other Universities...
...with a lawn which the Senator diligently mows, with shrubs which he diligently clips- Mrs. Norris began wrapping the comfortable old-fashioned furniture in sheets, a handy man began nailing up the shutters. Only one thing was unusual. When the Norrises went to the railroad station and boarded a train on the Burlington, their tickets read not to Washington, D. C. but to Lincoln, Neb. George Norris was going this time to present to the people of Nebraska, "who have done so much for me," something "that will benefit them after I am dead, that will benefit their children after...