Word: wagoneer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democracy's unwanted child. Orders have gone out to the lesser Tigers (Ahearns, Sullivans, Hoeys, Flynns, Bradys, McCues, Ryans): no rough stuff, no noise, no liquor parties. Backslapping, in which Olvany does not indulge, actively or passively, is frowned upon. New York's Jimmie Walker, on the wagon, grins at the restless Tigers and quotes the price of corn whiskey.* Boss Olvany lifts his long eyelashes, advises calisthenics, cold showers...
...would actually "hop in the family car and head down the concrete" for Kansas City, would exceed 100,000, perhaps reach 150,000. He said he had already received 15,000 letters in actual farmer handwriting assuring him the "crusade" was on. "The first caravan [of the Covered Wagon] developed the agricultural empire ; the second caravan is moving to protect it," he said...
...ordinary courtesy created no stir in Sofia, where his devoted subjects remember that not so long ago he heroically sprang from the running board of an automobile driven by his chauffeur and seized the bridles of two terrified horses which were running away with a farm wagon full of children (TIME, Sept. 21, 1925). A few months previous the intrepid Motorist Tsar stopped his car when fired upon by roadside assassins, opened fire with his own revolver and sent the plug-uglies flying for their lives (TIME, April...
While the Virginia capes were being defended, bevies of airplanes swooped and wheeled over Langley Field, Va., to demonstrate how they would treat an infantry regiment and wagon train should they have been landed by an invader. The Army Air Corps' high command issued winged invitations to the press and all flew out from Bolling field to see the show...
...little, to support from the stands. We need action leave the inertia in the Physics laboratory, and show the boys that we are with them during this, the most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority or inferiority, but with the traditional spirit of this institution Holy Cross, win or lose, Holy Cross. Holy Cross Tomahawk