Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Half naked, they drive to the game in a perambulating garbage can that resembles a chariot (see front cover). After Harpo has made one touchdown by scattering banana peels in the way of the opposing team, all four Marx brothers ride up the field in their refuse wagon and put down several balls for several more touchdowns...
...everyone knows, there are really five Marx brothers. They are descended from a Hanoverian magician and ventriloquist named Lafe Schoenberg, who toured Germany for 50 years, carrying his scenery, tricks, wife & three children in a roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name...
...Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived his voice changed. He got a job driving a grocery wagon in Cripple Creek, Colo., saved enough for a ticket home and $10 to pay for his food. He lost the $10. An old lady who had a basket of fruit fed him on oranges and peanuts...
...Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head was 500 miles away at St. Joseph, Mo. It was unhealthful to ask a man what his name was back East. The rough, tough citizens said: "It's day all day in the daytime and there's no night...
First heroes in making a city out of a wagon-train village at a creekmouth were the men who organized Denver's own railroad to connect it with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne. They included Governor John Evans who founded the University of Denver; David Halliday Moffat, the mining man for whom the Moffat Tunnel is named; Walter Scott Cheesman, Denver waterworks builder. When Bryan's fight for the 16-to-1 silver ratio was finally defeated, silver was ruined, but not Denver. Its railroad enabled it to change from mining city to food city. Modern Denver was built...