Word: wagonful
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...They were armed with water pipes, through which were passed looped wires. The men fought back the cats with the pipes, forced them, into corners, slipped the looped wires around their necks, dragged them out to a net in the yard. As each fighting cat was tossed into a wagon, neighbors leaning from windows cheered. Twenty-eight cats were captured this way. Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats. As darkness crept into the Dornsife house the officers called for lights. The lights had been turned...
...month ago Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer, tycoon and owner of the New York "Yankees," estimated that all in all the brewing industry would spend some $200,000,000 in rehabilitation, if & when. His own company's requirements, he said, would be $5,000,000. Ready to board the beer wagon last week was Louis J. Ehret, son af the late Brewer George Ehret. He incorporated a new George Ehret Brewing Co., to be all ready...
Last week Pan American Airways announced perfection of a visual "synchronizer" developed by George Kraigher, chief pilot on the western division. It is based on the principle by which a wagon wheel in a motion picture appears to skid. It seems to skid because the spokes of the wheel accidentally become synchronized with the camera shutter...
...Evanston, Ill., Tommy Randolph, 3, halted before a team of horses, shrilled "Giddap." Obedient, the horses clumped right over small Tommy Randolph, pulled the wagon across his trampled body...
...Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which is equally empty of intellectual nourishment and stimulation...