Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curbs. Governor Lehman went off to make a speech. The other reviewers ordered sandwiches and coffee. By this time the parade should have ended, but thousands were yet to come. George Gordon Battle led the lawyers. Life insurance people, office furniture brokers, telegraph and telephone employes with linemen in truck towers followed. The brewers marched past diabolically illuminated by red flares...
Died, Garvin Denby, 56, retired motor truck tycoon, brother of the late Teapot Dome Scapegoat Edwin Denby, son of onetime U. S. Minister to China Charles Denby; after an appendectomy; in Amityville...
Motoring to the Capitol, Florida's Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 74, was cut and bruised when a truck collided with his automobile...
During the War, Friends Toklas & Stein tried to live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein...
...rows, the armada covered 36 square miles. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down one lane of warships and up another went the onetime battle cruiser Hiyei (now a passenger ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito...