Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Free City of Danzig steamed a train and off got the League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, His Excellency Seán Lester, greeted only by Mrs. Lester and their dog. The dog leaped up and frisked about while Danzig Nazis stolidly stared at Seán Lester with hate in their blue eyes. Patting his dog on the head, the High Commissioner cracked in German at the Nazis, "Thank you, Meine Herren. Thank you for this warm welcome...
...night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband. . . . I've never made any secret of the fact that I like a good time and that I am particularly fond of champagne. . . . I'm on the spot now but I'll train and not touch another drop if I'm given another chance...
...train from Hamburg to Berlin Swimmer Jarrett apologized to the Olympic Committee, begged for another chance. Said Chairman Brundage: "It would wreck the American Olympic team." Even a petition drafted by Mrs. Jarrett's teammates asking for her reinstatement failed to budge the Committee. Deprived of her uniform and definitely out of the Games, unhappy Mrs. Jarrett blasted away at the Committee as follows...
...however, highly genial, rapid and unimportant melodrama, laid mostly on a train, dealing with the efforts of Duke Benson (Douglas Fowley), a public enemy with a national rating, to collect a sweepstakes prize. An insouciant G-Man (Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made...
...periodicals with the greatest circulations on earth. From a humming limbo of secrecy and editorial anonymity, these two publications emerge almost simultaneously twice a year. Each copy weighs about 4 lb., costs its publisher about 75?. Yet readers get them free. The current issues would fill a freight train some ten miles long, will net the U. S. Government about $1,300,000 in postage. Although they consist entirely of advertising, they provide abundant fireside entertainment for 14,000,000 people. From Chicago fanwise over the world last week began to spread the autumn and winter editions of the mail...