Word: wagonful
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...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
Both these toys lay neglected as Master John Boettiger, 5, pursued his recurring ambition to become a White House guard. But not for long. Interests ebb & flow fast at five. Soon, Johnny was back at his habit of riding the Irish Mail or the Express wagon back & forth on the long cement walkway that stretches just south of the sprawling White House, flashing briefly at one end into the vision of his grandfather, the President...
While on the subject of the faculty, (and it ought to be worth four Distinc's at least) it was good for a laugh the other day to see Professor "Peanut Wagon" Hanson come in, set his books down, look impatiently at the stragglers, then realize he was in the wrong classroom to rush out red-faced...
...Labor Government along strictly Australian lines and stoutly maintains the high-wage, high-profit economy which grew out of Aussie Socialism. Happily for Curtin and Australia, he has the energy and endurance for the job: some years ago, he gave up his heavy drinking, went on the wagon, and has been there ever since...
...vocal training in the U.S., most of his ideas about Parsifal by watching Melchior night after night. At the age of 21 Darcy left home in Minneapolis to study singing, married his Chicago teacher, Mme. Lucie Lenox. After a few years in midwestern vaudeville, singing things like Wagon Wheels complete with cart effect, he tried out as a baritone but failed to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. A year later (in 1940) he tried out as a tenor. This time he won a Metropolitan contract...