Word: wagoneer
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...drove away. "It was the best advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought a 1955 Ford station wagon large enough to hold his exploration gear...
...theatregoers have yet to match the security of the wine connoiseur at a Paris cafe. This production of Gigi comes with the same winning label that made a delightful book for Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
...deputy coroner, you had to possess the following: a letter from your ward boss, a wide-brimmed gray fedora, a diamond pinky ring, and a cigar. When somebody died of anything but natural causes, a deputy coroner rushed to the scene. They always rushed, because they were afraid the wagon men might grab a locket. Once there, it was the responsibility of the deputy coroner to have the body sent to the nearest funeral home owned by his brother-in-law. Then he would gather the facts. It was done this way: He would get the name of the dead...
Every time Gillian V. Benet '87 wants to transport her six-foot tall harp from her room in Lowell House to Memorial Hall, where she practices, she has to hire a station wagon taxi to make the quarter-of-a-mile trip...
Although owning a harp can be expensive (Benet's family also had to buy a station wagon to transport the harp when she began playing it), its size can be an asset. Benet says, "sometimes, when I'm on tour, I use the harp case as a dressing room. It also doubles as a closet for my long dresses...