Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vice President John Nance Garner, as round and hard and brown as the pecans he grows on his ranch, packed up his starched collars and his cutaway, helped his quiet secretarial wife into the family car and motored to San Antonio. There he boarded a Katy train, talked briefly to a friend passing through Waco, but locked his stateroom door when he reached Dallas...
Alighting from his train in Washington, Vice President Garner again withdrew into a stony silence on national affairs. The next time newsmen saw him he was wandering around the House wing of the Capitol. He did not deny that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
Because of cold and snow the 9:45 express train from pine clad Sinaia into Bucharest was delayed one night last week. A fair-sized crowd was on the station platform, for nearby is the extravagantly turreted palace that is King Carol's country home. Impatiently awaiting the train were Premier Ion Gheorghe Duca, hurrying back to the Capital after a conference with the King, former Mayor Costinescu of Bucharest and Secretary General of the Legislative Council Michel Vlashide. Frugally all three bought third class tickets. They did not notice a group of university students at the other...
...conclusion, Speaker Rainey said, "Better than ever before is the opportunity for men with trained minds. Do not, however, train your mind in the study of economics. It is better to solve problems for yourself after acquiring correct habits of study...
...ensemble.* Woizikovsky is 28, old for a ballet dancer. Most of the present members of the Monte Carlo Company are in their teens, but they have had Diaghilev dancers for teachers. There is dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, 14, whom London calls the second Pavlova. She was born in a train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter...