Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went West in a wagon train at 18, traded shots with Indians, turned down a bartender's job in Portland to set type for a weekly paper also called the Oregonian. His liquor-loving boss, Thomas J. Dryer, finally gave him the paper for back wages in 1860 and went off to the Sandwich...
...Philadelphia, Mr. Stern had cannily hitched his publishing wagon to the rising Democratic star as early as 1930. His success as the publisher of the Philadelphia Record,. "FIGHTING ALONE" for Franklin D. Roosevelt in a traditionally Republican town, encouraged him to try his luck as the one fanatically New Deal voice in Democratic New York City. But in spite of "oxygen" for Post circulation (266,151 for the six months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines...
...cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service, Anna, being an artist, was disqualified. The award (a leather feed bag) went to Tootsie, who has pulled a pickle wagon through The Bronx for 15 years. "All work and no play," says Mr. Hertz, "makes Dobbin a dull...
Based on an original story by Emerson Hough (The Covered Wagon), rigged out with a full quota of blizzards, prairie fires, stampedes, cowboys, carpetbaggers and Comanche Indians, The Texans contains more than enough action for a grand scale brush country epic. That it fails to emerge...
Patrick altogether-as when he recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl...