Word: wagoneer
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...Grant Foundation has given Phillips Brooks House $3000 for an urgently needed station wagon. The gift from the Grant stores came in response to an appeal by PBH to eleven different foundations...
...full-time servant to the public. I look out for the little fellows' rights. And they vote for me." The mayor explained that when a retired old widow calls him and want to know where her social security check is, he sends his red Mercury station wagon after her, drives her down to the appropriate bureau, and straightens the matter out. Then he drives her back home. "You know, after that she'll vote...
...Vatican, Germany's go-getting Automaker Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 18, 1954) had a private audience with Pope Pius XII, a friend of Nordhoff's ever since the Pope was a papal nuncio in Berlin. Good Catholic Nordhoff presented His Holiness with a flashy new Volkswagen station wagon with a red body and black suntop...
...couple of years, Lillian was drinking because she had to. She even married another alcoholic (Richard Conte). His proposal: "Let's go on the wagon together." They didn't. He beat her when they got drunk, and one day she ran away. Left alone, she skidded fast and hit bottom hard in a San Francisco gutter. Sent back to mother in Manhattan, she tried to kill herself and couldn't. In the end she walked into a branch office of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was the beginning of a cure and a comeback that has carried Lillian Roth...
...almost everything else that Cameraman "Wilfrid Cline has trained his lens on. Some spectators, though, may be mildly startled at the final fade, in which the lovers are back in the water again, drifting sensuously downstream together with nothing on as they laugh derisively at the wagon train that rolls sturdily past them on its way to the coast. Somehow, it just doesn't seem to be the spirit that won the West...