Word: wagoneers
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...W.S.P.U. adopted a French Revolutionary sense of crowd management, public spectacle and symbolic ceremony. They would greet one of their number on release from prison and draw her triumphantly in a flower-decked wagon through the streets, and they staged elaborate allegorical pageants and torchlight processions, with Mrs. Pankhurst proudly walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...
...flattered, but I was surprised," he says. "I'd fallen off the wagon on law a long time ago, I assumed that they generally ask people who were in the legal field for years and years so I wasn't quite sure why I was asked. [I am] someone who [went] to law school, but who made their way in a different path...
...mother's visit, mentally evaluating its duration against my calculations for the time required for the paper. And so it was with some trepidation that I greeted my mom when she rolled into the Quad driveway in "the Bathtub," as my friends have affectionately dubbed our large white station wagon...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Oral Champlin and Dick Snow April 1, 1999 [MODE] Covered wagon [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 30 miles a day for 105 days [THE CAUSE? None (they're just visiting relatives) PREPARATION] Rebuilt the tops of two old wagons...
...Stories (Scribner; 285 pages; $25), her new collection of short stories: "Pake knew a hundred dirt road shortcuts, steering them through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this...