Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving, Manager Osborne and N. S. Howe 26 tried to ascertain the number of the police officer, but when the latter was asked civilly for this information, he completely lost his good temper and fairly shouted, "Get out before I call the patrol wagon...
...demonstration caused by the suspension of the Sophomores, we quote: "They hired a wagon, placed the suspended students in it, and drew them through the streets of Cambridge. Opposite President Felton's house, they gave him three cheers and called, jeeringly, for a speech. . . Next day the suspended students were notified that they must leave town. Some 100 Sophs met them with cheers, and groans for the Faculty...
...Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand...
...Vanishing American. Another western film that adds to U. S. history as did The Covered Wagon, and gives in the process excellent entertainment as did that memorable film, has appeared on the subject of the American Indian. It would be wildly impolitic to prophesy that The Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...
Tremont Temple--"The Iron Horse" at 8.15. This does for the American Railway what "The Covered Wagon" did for America...