Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...
...many years ago", he is quoted as saying, "it was not uncommon to see a dozen cops pile into a wagon and hurry off to quell some riot in a dormitory entry, or in the Square. In my own student days our various committee meetings and editorial conferences were held in the crowded saloons of Harvard Square. Our class dinners and commencement gatherings were occasions of drunken revelry. It used to be a point of honor never to leave a drunken classmate in Boston or down at the port. Instead, he must somehow be got home...
...suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing in the Repair of Democracy, Sex, The Facts of History, and God.) The spirit of fun untainted by prostitution to a cause lives on only in the Vagabond's breast...
...models . . . except the price. There will be an improved four with a variety of body types, mostly commercial. But big news was the '"V" eight in ten body types, completely new in design. Motors will fit either chassis, so the sedan eight may eventually become the station-wagon four. Twenty of them were built over a year ago. The late Thomas Edison rode in one but the car will not be called the Edison, as reported. In November Mr. Ford decided against launching the eight, and the plants were busy on the improved four. Suddenly Mr. Ford said...
...tactical manoeuvre in a most embarrassing situation. Even if his proposal is voted down, as it is almost sure to be, he will have little reason to regret his step. Mr. Garner will be forced to retreat with his abortive gesture; officeholders will continue to trail the Hoover band-wagon; a watchful public will be satisfied...