Word: wagoneer
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...Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Shultz drives a shiny new Buick and has a De Soto station wagon rigged as an ambulance. He pilots his own Fairchild plane for easy hops up & down the valley, and flies with a pilot in an old Waco into mountain meadows. All told, Dr. Shultz manages to see an average of 45 patients...
Aboard the yacht Fakhr el Bihar, accompanied by two destroyers, an ambassador, three courtiers and a staff of 50 (plus five Cadillacs and a station wagon), Egypt's Queen Narriman, 17, and King Farouk, 31, arrived in Taormina, Sicily to spend the first ten days of their two-month honeymoon. The entourage took up a 60-room wing in the Hotel San Domenico, a converted monastery, where the royal couple shared what the management refers to as "the Truman suite" (named for an anticipated visit by the President which never came off): a reception room, two bedrooms, a connecting...
...seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works and $500 million in greenbacks to be spent on wagon-road building. After getting arrested for walking on the Capitol grass (20 days in jail), he gave up for the time being but returned 50 years later to finish his speech...
...Warners scored such a box-office smash that they were able to make a film of their own in 1912, a three-reeler titled Perils of the Plains. "Just like The Covered Wagon," says Harry, "except we used three wagons and they used 300." By making $3 do the work of $300, the brothers gradually expanded moviemaking, struck it rich with such stars as John Barrymore (The Sea Beast, Beau Brummel...