Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Valanzula, who three weeks ago was side-showing at Coney Island, N. Y., as "Tom Ton, 960 Ibs." He had begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...
...Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour and a half, in the presence of two and a half truck loads of flowers. A wedding breakfast for 1,000 was served in the Executive Mansion, Sherry's doing the catering. The wedding gifts included a diamond and emerald bracelet (from the Downtown Tammany Club of New York City), two diamond bracelets, four oriental rugs, a dozen silver plates (from...
...University polo ponies will be shipped by truck this morning to the Myopia Club and their riders will follow at noon for the second of the three test matches which have been scheduled preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at the Westchester-Biltmore Club starting June 19. Following their well earned victory over the veteran Dedham quartet last Tuesday in defense of the Copley-Plaza trophy, the University mallel men are expected to win their two matches with the Myopians and proceed to Rye with an excellent chance to retain their college title...
...been taken quietly by the hand and pushed over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...
...Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oakland, Pontiac,* Oldsmobile, G.M.C. Truck- General Motors makes them all. Last week this corporation sold its 5,000,000th motor vehicle and simultaneously marked the 1,002,285th car sale during the last twelvemonth. It took them nine years to sell their first 1,000,000, nine years to sell the last...