Word: wagoneer
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...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...
Tallulah Bankhead published a 326-page autobiography (Tallulah; Harper; $3.95), which began with a testy denial: "Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon." From then on, most of the book is a series of crisp confessions which fascinated at least one early reader. The publishers eagerly snatched at a warm blurb from Harry S. Truman: "I haven't been able to put it down. Undoubtedly the most interesting book I've had in my hands since I have been President of the United States...
...political planting time in the farm belt. On the same day last week, both presidential candidates climbed on a tractor-drawn flatbed wagon, rode around Henry Snow's gently rolling land in Dodge County, Minn., and sowed the seed from which they hope to reap the farm vote. The occasion was the National Plowing Contest, and 40,000 Mackinawed and jacketed residents of the farm country came to see the new machines, the tests of plowing skill (contour & level land) and the candidates...
...Senate. Largely as a result of Nixon's work on the Hiss case, a group of young California Republicans urged him to run for the Senate in 1950. Campaigning vigorously against the Democrats' Actress-Politician Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon toured the state in a station wagon, while Mrs. Douglas used a helicopter. Nixon developed a memorable ploy against her, obviously a major addition to Lifemanship.* He audibly and publicly worried about her health and, as a friend describes it, "He'd get a real sad look on his face whenever he bumped into...
...known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated with a government scientific worker in a book about English food, then married her. The child was their daughter, aged 10. The Drummonds had left England late in July, motoring through France in their Hillman station wagon, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes camping, as the hour or mood caught them. Wrote Elizabeth in her diary on July 29: "Papa is not content. He says it is too cold to camp. Mama and I teamed against him. We won." Because Elizabeth wanted to see a bullfight, on the fatal night...