Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove...
...Peninsula. The Chamberlain and Daladier Governments have been savagely criticized for letting Spain fall into.the hands of Fascist Franco, who is now in a position to train big guns on Britain's Gibraltar from the landward side. The result of this strategic boner is that the British can no longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain...
...France last month much was ado about an article in TIME appraising the Paris press. TIME had said out loud what many Parisians had for years been saying in lively whispers. Publisher Henry Robinson Luce, holidaying abroad, stepped off a train at St. Lazare to find that he had been sued for 5,000,000 francs by the Paris Press Association. But France's still democratic Government took no action, and TIME remained on French newsstands. Publisher Luce expressed regrets for TIME'S too-general indictment of the Parisian press. Fortnight later the Government, in an effort...
...bound trucks, spilled thousands of gallons on the roadsides. Strikers in automobiles threw bottles of kerosene on trucks that did not stop. Pickets fought State troopers, deputies and non-strikers. One man, slow getting out of the way of a charging milk tanker, was killed. A New York Central train with a load of milk was stalled on greased rails...
...taste (her only previous public appearances had been as a soloist with the Negro Hampton Institute Choir), Soprano Maynor modestly gave all the credit to her teachers. When she had heard the last concert of the Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked her hostess for a nice time, took the next train for Manhattan, where she lives with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said she: "My week has been so exciting...