Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children's truck passed Boss Bruno's house two shots pinged over the crowd. Then machine-gun bullets volleyed from three sides of Bruno's Corner into the jampacked ranks of the marchers. In a minute it was over. By the ruddy light of torches a priest was giving final absolution, his voice rising and falling through the shrieks of women and children. It began to rain...
...crew of six men and a truck have started to lovel off the lot, and it will probably be about two weeks before the space will be properly graded and fenced, according to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University. Two ramps are to be built across the sidewalk, and a wire fence is to enclose the plot. Durant also said that attendants will be on hand during the day-time, but no responsibility can be taken by the University for the safety of the cars or their contents...
...punching with his fists in pictures. Cagney suggested a variation to Director Ray Enright. In The St. Louis Kid he wears bandages on his hands, butts his way through brawls with his head. In other respects, the picture is standard Cagney entertainment, a rapid, realistic fantasy about a truck-driver who wants a quiet weekend in the country. Best shot: Cagney being welcomed into a village jail by a warden who loves company...
...Baltimore Sun recorded the operation as for gallstones. But the would-be President of the Philippine Islands would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank...
...loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MAN-MADE LIGHT began at 10 p. m. At midnight Rufus Cutler Dawes pulled a switch, blacking out every electric bulb in the grounds. Immediately the dark sky flared gorgeously with 500,000 bursting pyrotechnic bombs. Taps were sounded. Thus one day last week A Century...