Word: flivvers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...
...Fiench language, Anglo-Saxons have added the word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...
...driver of the battered flivver and the second-hand Dodge the proposal now before a committee of the General Court should be of interest. The plan suggested is to repeal compulsory insurance and substitute for it an act based on a New Hampshire law which provides that, although insurance is unrequired, drivers causing accidents are barred from the road until damages are payed...
...every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke down. She was politic with John Davison Rockefeller Jr., to whom she was introduced at Williamsburg...
...ruling in favor of Senator Couzens by the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals not only upheld his 1919 tax payment but found it had been about $500,000 too large. The Couzens case, whether designed by Secretary Mellon or brought out in line of duty, was a backfiring flivver...