Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer replied. "Why can't he ride up in front in the Cadillac with the chauffeur?" "Never," said Zouzou. "I always ride in front with the chauffeur." The commandant waited. O.K., said Zouzou, "if the government is so tightfisted, you can send him along in my station wagon." "Madam forgets," the officer said. "The government confiscated your station wagon...
...with hot words and drawn .455, and only a friend's intervention prevented gunfire. Affable, conservative Arana stood well with the army, and was in the lead for the presidency, when in July 1949 he was decoyed into making an inspection trip that took his Mercury station wagon over a little arched bridge near Lake Ama-titlán. There he and his aide were ambushed and Tommy-gunned to death by four young officers. All were intimates of handsome Jacobo Arbenz. Arana's army friends rose in revolt, but Defense Minister Arbenz, after a scary 36 hours...
...officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling a red wagon and next he is working on an important case ... He doesn't personify the L.A.P.D.'s homicide detective, Le Roy Sanderson, who could, in court, recite from memory . . . lengthy conversations that he had had with suspects, or Loren Miles, who was a quiet, pleasant, affable gentleman . . . who killed...
After the first kill, the spectators waited for the caparisoned mule team to enter the ring. Instead, when the gate opened, in drove Franklin, a broad grin on his tanned face, at the wheel of his Chrysler station wagon. The crowd watched in stunned silence as Franklin roped the bull's horns and tied the rope to the rear bumper. Back at the wheel, he towed the bull around the arena amidst an uproar of catcalls, hoots and laughter. Then he drove out. Three times that afternoon, Franklin drove into the ring and hauled away the carcass...
Bread & Butter Note. Near Walla Walla, Wash., two prisoners escaped from the county jail's paddy wagon, left a note for Jail Superintendent James Hammond: "Dear Jim, Sorry to eat and run, but we have to catch a train...