Word: wagoneer
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...wagon was dark, according to Fisher, and in the short ride to the station there was considerable violence inside the car. Just how much violence, Fisher was unable to determine accurately, although he claims several passengers were considerably more bruised when they emerged at the station...
They've kicked Harvard's good name around plenty. When the state un-American activities committee investigated the University of Washington, my alma mater, several committee members vowed to fix the wagon of a Seattle attorney who was advising several of the suspected professors...
...confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...complained a student to a local gendarme last night, and ten minutes later he found himself secretly ensconced in a paddy wagon on his way to Central Square...
...that Princess Margaret followed a fox hunt part of the way in a comfortable station wagon. Britain's League Against Cruel Sports was aroused to an angry resolution because she appeared at all: "The Princess cannot be aware of the views which a very large number of British people hold about fox hunting ... an amusement which is regarded . . . with absolute loathing and abhorrence, by reason of its inherent cruelty to the unfortunate animal involved...