Word: wagoneer
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Author Guthrie's novel is an epic saga of the hardy men who discovered a wilderness before the covered wagon came. The picture cuts down the novel's size and scope and tones down its realism, imposing a happy ending on the tragic love story of Boone and Teal Eye. But. for all its hemmed-in dramatic horizons, The Big Sky frequently has an easy naturalism, as if the camera and sound track were eavesdropping on the actors. Credit goes to Director Howard (Red River) Hawks...
...story log house in the one-crop tobacco country near Lowes, Ky. He was the eldest of eight children, and his father's favorite. When Alben had outgrown the little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here"), won high grades and a medal for oratory...
...baggage. In the Harz Mountain village of Hötensleben, some 2,000 inhabitants were ordered to pack up and get out within four hours. A farmer near Hünfeld, ordered to cut down his orchard, burn his house and move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight anyone found in the first eleven yards of the isolation belt. Life in the bordering belts was hedged with a strict curfew from dusk to dawn...
...speak, police charged forward, armed with revolvers and truncheons. While screaming women battered them with sticks, bottles, and legs torn off tables and chairs, the police dragged Sachs inside the City Hall, barricaded the main door, and then hustled their captive through a side door into a waiting patrol wagon. No shots were fired, but 51 women and 15 policemen were injured...
...while the embryo women's college was coming to its own, foreign inventors were busily at work on the first automobiles. The step from Honry Ford's car to the paddy wagon was a short one, and riot-quellers were soon provided with a new weapon. The Black Maria, in turn, hastened the discovery of the Eezy Meeny Miny Moe Ringleader Detection Technique...