Word: tram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They landed Army contracts, and soon Studebaker wagons were rolling into battle at Gettysburg and other Civil War actions. Custer made his last stand on the Little Big Horn separated from his supply tram of Studebakers. In the Boer War, Correspondent Winston Churchill was captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been...
...oncoming juggernaut. The phone was answered instantly by Stationmaster's Clerk Ray Klopp. "Get the hell out of there!" shouted Feeney into the telephone. Klopp began to sputter indignantly. "Runaway train coming right at you!" bellowed Feeney. Klopp wasted no more time. He wheeled and yelled, "Runaway tram...
...soot-blackened spires of the Old Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
...historical anthologies, this set takes 36 recordings out of the collector's-item class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose of "symphonic" dross...
Strangers on a Tram. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...