Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete disorganization such elementary progress was revolutionary. The armies or bandit hordes of Chinese Communists who tried to harass Nanking from the hinterland were turned by Generalissimo Chiang into an excuse for not fighting the Japanese. He used them as a football coach uses a scrub team to train the regular army of New China-the first Chinese War Machine, complete with European artillery, German military advisers, U. S. and Italian war planes...
...pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member of the League, almost before the Delbos train chugged away from Belgrade, Vreme, semi-official newsorgan of Premier Stoyadinovich, boasted that "all mention of the League of Nations was deliberately omitted" in the Premier's banquet toast to Minister Delbos...
Hungary, still an "enemy country" to France, was not officially included in M. Delbos' itinerary but his train halted at Budapest on the way across to Prague. When the train pulled in at 6 a. m. Foreign Minister Kálmán de Kánya lay snug in his warm bed, having sent an underling to get M. Delbos up in the cold dawn to receive M. de Kánya's good wishes...
From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...
...seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain...