Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, the hour struck for Nominee Landon to march back onto the front page. At Denver was assembled a very special train of nine cars, the last of which was named David Livingstone, after the eminent missionary-explorer who disappeared for five years in Africa, to be found by Journalist Henry Morton ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume") Stanley. Reserved for the Republican nominee, this private Pullman was equipped with microphones, loudspeakers, floodlights for rear platform campaigning...
...long do you train them?'' he was asked...
...keep their weight down, Dutch swimmers train on beans, go in heavily for dancing. That this process is eminently successful, Dutch trainers feel to be conclusively proved by the fact that Swimmer Mastenbroek, whose hobby is cooking, weighs a mere 150 Ib. while 18-year-old Willy den Ouden, until last week rated the world's ablest girl free-style swimmer, as yet shows few signs of outgrowing her 242-lb. mother...
Lucille Langhanke was born in Quincy, Ill. 30 years ago. When she grew up pretty, her parents started to train her for the films. Running second to Clara Bow in a beauty contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year...
Shipped in sections on a special freight train, Vulcan broke every tackle in St. Louis before he was finally bolted together in the centre of the mines and manufacturing exhibition buildings. An inscription for the base was supplied by one of Birmingham's leading citizens, John Henry Adams...