Word: wagoneer
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That is the way Lucy Mitchell wants it to be. "I am not in favor," she says emphatically, "of station-wagon progressive education ... I have always felt our school was purely a laboratory for the public schools. That was the excuse for its existence...
Winton struck back. They warmed up one of the company's two-cylinder trail blazers, hitched a wagon to the rear end, loaded a work-weary old jackass into the wagon, and attached a sign of their own: "This is the only animal unable to drive a Winton." Wherever the horse-drawn Winton went, the Winton and wagon followed. The disgruntled customer tired of it before the agency...
...produced its own brewery wagon for the parade, drawn by a pair of dray horses and followed by a brace of Yale men carrying one shovel and one garbage can respectively. Other classes wielded canes, fans, and long white beards...
...police retaliated with an all-out campaign against the racketeers. Special patrols aided by fire brigades swooped on one bicho headquarters, arrested Millionaire Banker Rafaele Palermo and 35 henchmen. Most Brazilians seemed unimpressed. One skeptical bystander, watching as Palermo and his assistants were hustled into the patrol wagon, muttered: "Bitten by the dogs they've been feeding. That reminds me: o cāo [the dog] has not turned up for a long time." Then, like many another citizen, he hurried off to place...
...years later, in 1857, an officer who remembered Grant from Mexico had the idea of driving out to see his old buddy. Stopping a seedy, mud-spattered farmer in a wagon, he asked the way to Grant's house, got back the answer: "Well, I am he." Cried the shocked officer: "Great God, Grant, what are you doing?" Grant, who sold wood for a living, had a reasonable reply ready: "I am solving the problem of poverty...