Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...
Emerson Hough, American novelist (June 28, 1857), author of the story now cinematized as The Covered Wagon, North of 36 and other western stories...
...this melodrama), that he considered this the best motion picture plot he had ever heard. His opinion discloses the fallibility of genius. Despite extraordinarily able performance, beauty and detailed lavishness of settings, and masses of money the picture lodges below the popular pinnacles now occupied by The Covered Wagon and Little Old New York...
...domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
Born in a wagon among the musty properties of a band of strolling players on the outskirts of Venice, she grew to womanhood behind the flickering footlights of mean country stages. At the age of 24 she fell violently in love, lost her lover, then burst suddenly into world-wide fame. Taking Rome by storm in 1885, she toured Europe 1886-92, coming to America...