Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined up on deck waiting to be taken off the torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge...
Ruth Chatterton's main fault as an actress is that, however deplorable her circumstances may be, she remains a lady. Thus the most spurious moment in this picture is the one which shows Lilly Turner hunched drunkenly on the front seat of the medicine show truck which her lover is driving, guzzling whiskey out of a pint bottle and confessing, with improbably heroic hiccoughs, that she has a Past...
...Philadelphia, after receiving a severe forehead gash when his automobile collided with a truck, Chevalier Jackson, 67, famed surgeon and bronchoscope inventor, gave first aid to the unconscious truck driver, proceeded to Temple University Hospital, performed three operations before colleagues persuaded him to go home...
...Manhattan, Albert Mailloux and George Beauchamp delivered a truckload of shirts to Dresswell Shirts, Inc. As they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...
...Cincinnati. Mrs. Margaret L. Pogue, motorist, extended her arm to give a traffic signal. A bale of straw fell from a passing truck, struck her arm, broke it below the elbow...