Word: wagoneer
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...traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
...could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first-aid man gently scooped him up and deposited him in his butcher's wagon...
Revolt of the Nags. In The Bronx, a junk-wagon horse named Brownie ran away on a hot day, clattered down a flight of steps to a cellar door, broke in, relaxed in comfort. In Brooklyn, a milkwagon horse named Jerry deserted the beat he had been traveling for 13 years, clumped 17 miles off his course, stopped in front of a house, went to the front door and knocked. He got a two-day vacation...
Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...
...pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...