Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holding-up of a Grand Trunk Railway train at 90th street by six bandits who bombed open the mail car and made off with...
...gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said she had killed her father with an axe and put his body in a trunk in the cellar. The corpse of Smith T. Petty was found where Alma Gatlin said it was; there was a hole through the skull...
Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...
Arms sideways RAISE. He took each position as if to a bellowed command. Trunk forward BEND. He dipped way over the 'cellos. Sideways LUNGE. That was a pale little passage for the violins. Right arm upwards RAISE. It was for the tympanist to see him. Rotate the trunk and arms in regular count. That was for the full band. He postured this way and that, flung his body into a dozen foolish positions. For five minutes and more the audience sat in a smothered giggle. Critics were delighted to see a new conductor who would make good copy...
Shortly before he died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety legs which folded up so that it could be carried about like a trunk, its green-baize writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan...