Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West train robbers embellished their felonies with quixotic gestures, fantastic flourishes. Last of the old school was Bill Carlisle who, after he had wrecked a train, would hold up the passengers with a candy-filled glass pistol. A train robbery in Wyoming last week showed how the old tradition has degenerated...
...Pawnee. Okla., two officers arrested Tom Vernon, alias Tom Brennan. Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Higgins of Los Angeles, who had stalked Vernon across six states, charged him with wrecking and robbing a Southern Pacific train near Saugus, Cal. last month. Sheriff Gus Romsa of Cheyenne was on hand to charge him also with last week's Wyoming...
Early last week he was let off the battleship, ushered into a first-class reserved compartment on the de luxe train for Madrid. There he is free, although well watched...
...give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that he can borrow money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only one of which is even remotely familiar...
...best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died...