Word: vanload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying goodbye to President Doumergue last week King Gustaf stayed exactly ten minutes. No sooner had he left than M. Le President dashed to the station. Soon he was rumbling toward Nice with the vanload of presents stowed away in the baggage car of his special train- presents for the Bey of Tunis: a gold encrusted hunting rifle and splendorous vases of Sevres porcelain. For all the wives of the Bey of Tunis, knowing Bachelor Doumergue took bracelets, earrings and other jewelry. For Tunisian chiefs he took dozens of dazzlingly chased rifles...