Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...
...Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
Roosevelt sat upon a little seat on the forward edge of the lower wing and, with his feet upon a rail built out ahead, could look between his legs at the ground...
...physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce. . . . Fortunately for his wife, he dies before she finds evidence for her perpetual suspicions, and she is able to wear "victorious" widow's weeds, rather than the dreaded badge of Reno...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...