Word: trunkful
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Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...
...kaleidescopic sweater, strolled among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
...sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates by calling up on the radiophone to say, "Hello, how is everybody over there?" Mrs. Walker took her turn at the instrument and said. "Is everybody at home all right...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, by means of an obviously inspired article in the Baltimore Sun, last week made a gesture towards resolving the stalemate into which the eastern trunk lines have moved themselves...
...benefit of competing eastern trunk lines and to help resolve their standstill, the Sun writer had the Pennsylvania suggest that the Reading, the Central of New Jersey and the Western Maryland, each of which is demanded by two or more of the competitors, be neutralized. But, "it is announced, moreover, that any new plan that may be worked out must provide for what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact...