Word: wagoneer
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...People's Commissars Council of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic-one of U. S. S. R.'s seven autonomous republics-was reported to have committed suicide, an announcement which reminded some cynical U. S. newsgatherers that many a third-degreed prisoner slips getting into the patrol wagon...
...lacking. Abetted by the Shoreham Hotel's blonde Accordionist Ida Clarke, Senator Byrnes, who opposed Barkley's election, intoned When I Grow Too Old To Dream, and in a sentimental mood Alben Barkley himself, without rising from his seat, gave his favorite rendition of his favorite melody, Wagon Wheels. If there were any discords that evening no Democratic ear would hear them...
...been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants at a maximum cost of $10. To carry to the world the news of which coaster-wagon rolled down the 1,175-11. chute fastest, there were no less than 15 press wires...
...Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne gave first place to a design of two reposeful...
High, Wide and Handsome (Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs...