Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry...
...banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. with Mr. Loree and his aims. Because Mr. Loree is the railroad adviser to Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, widow of the man who organized the Union Pacific and the Illinois Central as most potent roads, such relations are important for a transcontinental trunk system. George Jay Gould tried this at one time. But the panic of 1907 wrecked him financially, destroyed his aims...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...which would have been the shortest of the Eastern trunk systems (about 6,000 miles) can approximate the mileage of the others...
...field day," a shindig, the kind Denver loves. People scratched their heads to think up things they wanted or did not want. One man offered voice lessons for a tombstone. One wanted to swap a steamer trunk for a suitcase and grip. One wrote: "Will decorate your home as first payment on used car." Another: "Canary, fine singer; sell for $5." Police had to regulate the queues of would-be advertisers. Thirsty automobiles jammed the publishing districts...