Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor truck units...
...porch of a hostelry in Old Faithful, there was parked an old baggage-truck. When Mrs. Coolidge saw this early one morning, she beamed. To secret service men, to John Coolidge she expressed a desire to be wheeled about in the rude conveyance. Laughing, John Coolidge trundled his mother here and there until the diversion grew wearisome...
WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER, 42, Kansas City, Mo.; active as pastor; was Y.M.C.A. truck driver...
...runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White...
Woodbridge began to speak. . . ." Such was the Denver Post's description of the hearty welcome that Denver gave the advertising people. One Miss Ora Williams of Pine Bluff, Ark., tumbled off a fire truck; one Miss Betty Blunk had her body scorched by blank cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association...