Word: car
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritan. In Philadelphia, a stranger stopped to help Walter Bowe push his stalled car, suggested that he work the starter while Bowe pushed, managed to start the motor, disappeared with the car...
...conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning...
Anxious to take advantage of the Procter & Gamble offer, CRIMSON editors chauffered Miss Shohet to the Quincy warehouse, but arrived after the plant had closed. Their efforts to obtain entrance brought a Quincy patrol car, but no charges were filed...
...Duty. In Columbia, S.C., a car driven by Boseman E. ("Joe") Collins, a professional housewrecker, veered off the road, clipped off the corner of a filling station, smashed the porch of one house, smashed to a stop against the porch of another...
Nathan P. Carleton '51. one of many owners of 1929 Model A Fords, admits his plain black job "doesn't have much character; it's just a darn good car." Lacking the rustic qualities of a Model T or the urbane class of a Rolls, the car amazed its owner recently by apparently running 10 miles on an empty gas tank and coming to a dead stop before a gas station...