Word: viaduct
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...Manhattan, Adolph Kanter, 44, drove his car through the railing and off a 75-ft. viaduct, found that instead of being killed he had suffered only a black eye, a few bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with...
...whose line, capitalized at the high figure of $440,000 per mile, is one of the best-built and most scrupulously maintained main lines in the country. On its comparatively short stretch [New York to Buffalo] are to be found two remarkable railroad formations: the 2,230 ft. Tunkhannock Viaduct, largest concrete bridge in the world; and the 3-mi. Pequest Fill, largest railroad embankment in the world...
...famed cinema-arbiter, U. S. Postmaster-General in the Harding cabinet. Grounds: incompatibility. They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know...
...Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Prince Consort, Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Though newsgatherers did not penetrate...
...mind "Viaduct View", with its Miss Twose who "was a very bleached and shapeless little person, who, somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...