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Set in the make-believe town of Haplin, Minn., where there's a bread factory on a hill overlooking Restoration Hardware's idea of a Main Street, "Happy Town" does a few things right: The opening scene is good 'n' sick, involving a mysterious person who has tied up the town weirdo in an ice-fishing shack, torturing him for information, and then hammering one of those big railroad-track spikes through his forehead.
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Set in the make-believe town of Haplin, Minn., where there's a bread factory on a hill overlooking Restoration Hardware's idea of a Main Street, "Happy Town" does a few things right: The opening scene is good 'n' sick, involving a mysterious person who has tied up the town weirdo in an ice-fishing shack, torturing him for information, and then hammering one of those big railroad-track spikes through his forehead.
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( "You know," he says in his urgent, high-pitched voice, "the origin of the modern railroad-track gauge is the military specification of a Roman war chariot.")
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Thomas and Schofield to turn straight for Jonesboro, tearing up the railroad-track as they advanced.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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And so I stopped the hosses on the railroad-track, and read.
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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It was a narrow cut in the hills where he was, a bridle-road leading back and running zigzag for some miles until it returned to the railroad-track.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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They were near the town now, the road crossing a railroad-track, where the hill, chopped apart for the grade, left bare the black stratum of coal, tinged here and there with a bloody brown and whitish shale.
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We rode along the railroad-track, some three or four hundred yards, to a large foundery, when some man rode up and said the rebel cavalry were close by, and he warned us that we might get shot.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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She went after pails of water and left her children playing beside the railroad-track; their tattered and ludicrous appearance bespoke her unskilfulness with the needle; she was said to have scalded the eldest boy with a skilletful of hot water in which she had soaked bacon, pouring it out of the window on his head.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Those who could read traced the legend "Photographic Car" on the sides of the vehicle, and with many a rude joke each bantered the other to have his picter took for such purposes as skeerin 'stock off the railroad-track or knockin' the crows stiff.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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