Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a 45-minute chat, Mr. MacDonald sped from M. Briand's office to the Gare de Lyons. Before his train chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
...lived in seclusion with his wife, ate his meals at a seaside "dog wagon," for exercise swam off a lonely beach. Once he was saved from gunmen only through the diligence of private detectives. Another time his home was almost bombed. Once he was kidnaped, taken by train to another city, saved by an unknown friend who wired ahead to authorities. "That story," boasts Editor Older, "went around the world...
...Francisco. William or Jake Fleagle (alias Holden), 35, 5 ft. 11 in., well-dressed professional gambler, for a train robbery at Martinez and a bank robbery at Lamar, Col., in which four men were killed. Reward: $17,000. Warning: "Desperate...
...Police, searching for him for six months, called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
...Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...