Word: baggageman
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...dusty mountain road to the Yugoslavian village of Karlovac chugged the little blue Simca. Its driver, Cleveland Press Columnist Theodore Andrica, was on an extraordinary assignment for his paper: to find Mrs. Jela Grozdanovich, sister of Press Subscriber John Golubic, a retired railroad baggageman. Andrica's mission was only partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian...
...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
...Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go-this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please...
...schoolteacher, now a William ("Big Bill") Hale Thompson political supporter, asked for and received "free entry" for a trip to Panama. In January, 1928, he re-entered the U. S. through Key West, his six trunks passing without inspection by customs agents. At the Jacksonville railroad station a baggageman traced a liquor trickle to a broken bottle in one of these trunks. Federal agents seized the trunks, removed the liquor, shipped them to Washington where, upon claiming them, their owner was identified...
...cast of characters for the Hasty Pudding Club's annual play, "The Fattest Calf," has been picked as follows: Baggageman, P. B. Kurtz '16 Sadie, a lunch counter girl, J. P. Spang, Jr., '15 A. Drummer, R. Cutler '16 A. Hobo, D. R. Sigourney '15 Station Agent, Harold Amory '16 Manager, R. P. Baldwin '16 Steve, J. S. N. Sprague '16 Bassanio, C. F. Farrington '16 Shylock, J. S. N. Sprague '16 Antonio, D. R. Sigourney '15 Portia, F. S. Allen '16 Duke, R. Cutler '16 Othello, W. T. S. Thorndike '16 Jurors, J. Harper '16 F. Brooks '15 Clerk...
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