Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief went downstairs to breakfast alone. The rest of the family was late. Afterwards Mr. Justice Stone dropped in for a chat. A truck came up with two sacks of mail-presents for The Chief, which were not opened...
...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...
...street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn...
...sunshine. Peaceful was even the George ("Bugs") Moran booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...
...snorting motor truck which took the news reels and movie projector to His Holiness was emblazoned with the Italian Coat of Arms and was the first vehicle so emblazoned to enter the Papal precincts since 1870. The estrangement between Pope and King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...