Word: wagoneer
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...fated Lampoon is furnishing the wagon this year," quipped his colleague, "and they claim it runs on alcohol...
Apparently Satchel got strong by shouldering 200-lb. blocks of ice. Last week his old ice-wagon employer recalled his prodigious appetite: "That boy et mo' than the bosses." Satchel was born 31 years ago on Mobile's South Side. The boy played on the sandlots, then with a semi-pro outfit, then with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. Up in the big time, he was the ace of the Pittsburgh Crawfords for seven years. The famed Homestead (Pa.) Grays snatched him up, and he found himself riding high on $250 a game, averaging one game a week. Last...
...could be greatly increased with governmental aid. We have great economic power which the Allies can draw on at present only subject to restrictions and hindrances. And lastly we have the potential power of making gentlemen like Mussolini hesitate a bit before deciding whether it's really a band wagon to be jumped...
...elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...
...until day mornin'," said he. "But if you don't tell me you need me don't call me when you get in jail. If you get in jail through meanness, let meanness get you out. You never saw a child of God in a patrol wagon...