Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high duties imposed upon it?yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...
...youngest child, who is five years old, I have seen only once, when he was christened, and, counting the War years, I have been away from home for nine years. All these years living in my trunk. A child can understand that I am not living here for pleasure. Sooner or later the day must come when I shall return to Germany. I ask only to live like an ordinary citizen on my large estate in-Silesia and in the midst of my family. The Socialist Government wanted to seize that estate, but I am sure that I shall...
...present, four great trunk lines connect Chicago and New York-the Baltimore & Ohio (1,014 miles), Erie (998 miles), New York Central (979 miles), Pennsylvania (909 miles). But from the recent attitude taken by President A. H. Smith, of the New York Central, it has been learned that that road contemplates establishing still another trunk line route between the two cities. Recent hearings of the Interstate Commerce Commission have been devoted to the old question of railroad consolidation. The tentative plan of the Commission had been to assign the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia & Reading...
...wild adventure, the trek of Del Sol?cattle, men, horses, rifles, six-shooters, across uncharted plains to Abilene, on the trail of the North Star, The difficulties include Indians, stampedes, storms, the fording of rivers believed impossible to ford and, throughout, the complications of an ingeniously villainous plot. A trunk full of land-scrip proves a bone of contention and Taisie's own attractions very nearly wreck things at various times?for far too many people are anxious to marry her. The actions of McMasters often seem very strange?can it be that he is a traitor and in league...
...black boy who had an old fiddle. The blind man tried the old violin and liked its tone. He traded the new fiddle for the old. The other day in Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside...