Word: wagoneer
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Jails. In Mexico City when a jailer stopped letting a prisoner go out every day the prisoner protested to a court on the ground that his constitutional rights were being denied him. In Louisville, when a drunken teamster fell asleep on his wagon his mule pulled him to a police station, stopped at the door...
...best thing in the picture, and it is they who save it from being slow and second-rate. Akim Tamiroff is a Russian waiting for his citizenship papers, and Lee Tracy is a legless beggar who seems to enjoy pushing himself around underfoot on a little roller-skate wagon. Mary Martin and Fred MacMurray are perfectly adequate in their roles, which demand neither a minimum nor a maximum of acting ability...
...Clemens, Mich., a song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move...
...green emergency squad wagon from the Police Department drove up when a bomb made a direct hit on a one-story brick house, setting it on fire. Up drove a "catastrophe" ambulance from Bellevue with interns and nurses; up drove a red Consolidated Edison truck to fix broken gas mains and cables; a station wagon with "Mobile Blood Plasma Unit No. i" on the side...
General Chen is a favorite partly because he has curried favor. He is one of China's most political and ambitious generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...