Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving pirate has raided the community. All that is needed to complete the picture is a black flag flying from the radiator of his motor truck. Careless undergraduates who left last spring with-out, making definite contracts to have their furniture moved are now being charged out of all reason. The work has been done and the contractor finds himself in a well-nigh impregnable position. He urges that he has fulfilled his contract, and that the time of payment is at hand...
Though large quantities of truck are still delivered by the movie moving vans, 20 years have brought us The Covered Wagon and Little Old New York. Almost every hamlet has a good film once a week. These things should prompt praise as well as pity. In many aspects the progress of the movies is miraculous rather than ridiculous...
Because of the machinery destroyed and the value of the stock of pine boards, the loss was estimated at about $100,000. When the blaze was under control, a Salvation Army truck distributed coffee and sandwiches to the firemen...
...hundred thousand hundred-mark notes were showered on a Berlin crowd from a truck at the corner of Unter den Linden and the Fried richstrasse. This expenditure of 20,000,000 marks ($87.50 going down) was an advertisement of Herr Breitbart, billed as the " World's Strongest...
...curious outgrowth of the strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...