Word: wagoneer
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...themselves before the microphones, pulled the tail of a big white collie but flatly refused to talk. Finally their grandmother stepped in to help the baffled cameramen, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas. Herbert III listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought out of the White House to express...
...Sussex, N. J., Farmer Patrick Devine & son were in his wagon; his horse in front; his cow behind; his dog gamboling here & there. Up leaped the dog, bit the horse's nose. Terrified, horse and cow upset the wagon. Farmer Devine threw his son out, jumped, caught his foot in a chain, was killed under the wheels...
...Frank W. Palmer's place near Norton, Kan. last week, beneath the creak and jingle of harness and the wooden noises of wagons you could hear the bang and rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
Chicago citizens were surprised last week to see 2,000 bewildered, chilly box turtles crawling about a vacant lot on Michigan Avenue. Nobody knew where they came from. Humane society officials caught them, locked them in a dog-catcher's wagon, drove them to the Field Museum. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, was glad to get them. He planned to liberate them near Waukegan, Ill., study their habits...
...goodnatured James William ("Jim") Good, winner of the West for Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover (who rewarded him with the portfolio of War), used to talk about votes in terms of bullfrogs. On the eve of the 1928 election he said he felt like the man who loaded his wagon with live bullfrogs and drove off to stock up his pond. From the noise in the wagon, the man was sure all the bullfrogs were still there all the way. But when he got to the pond, he found that all but two specially noisy frogs had jumped out. Good...