Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business increased 300% during their stay. Principal agendum at the Congress was rostrum-climbing. To help them avoid tripping over themselves, their long skirts and their flowers, delegates had a corps of debutante pages. Principal agendum of the pages standing at the rostrum steps was to lift the train of each ascending delegate with combined dexterity, good timing and discretion. From inspecting each other's clothes, writing messages and electioneering, the delegates found recreation in patronizing booths in the hall which specialized in D. A. R. pins, bronze plaques for marking old soldiers' houses and genealogical charts...
Declaring that although he does not believe in making American citizens fight in foreign wars, he is unalterably opposed to pacifists who refuse to fight in defense of their country, Fish declared as he hurried into the Back Bay station to catch a train, "most pacifists and the people who want us to fight for other countries are foreigners...
...police hastily sent out an eight-State alarm, searched trains, railroad stations, hotels. And as Henry's agitated father, John Cyrus Distler, sped by train to New York, the two boys marched calmly into Henry's house in Baltimore...
When, bruised and disheveled, the chauffeurs discovered each other's identity, they hustled the boys out of the crowd onto a train to Stamford, brought them back to New York by the next train. In her East 69th Street house Mrs. Roosevelt grimly sent the boys supperless to bed -on separate floors. To newsmen Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Distler explained that the escapade was merely "an ill-advised prank." that their chief worry was whether the boys would be readmitted to Groton. Said the parents: "They really love the school...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...