Word: breakneck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dropping work at once Dictator Mussolini ordered out his racing Alpha Romeo, donned a linen duster, cap and heavy goggles, drove at breakneck speed 250 miles over especially cleared roads to Donna Rachele. Even then he did not forget the grain. A harvest conference with leading Italian producers had been scheduled for next day in Rome. Brusquely the conferees, including Minister of Economy Alessandro Martelli, were ordered to speed to Forli too. There in the government building hastily swept out for the occasion. Babe & Grain Generalissimo Mussolini continued his fructive campaign, ordered still wider distribution of his famed propaganda poem...
...Chicago in Florida's sunshine; Pony McAtee, a jockey; Tris Speaker, whose name is on small boys baseball bats; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne, who had come from New York by special train with guests; Johnny Farrell, national open golf champion; Caleb Bragg, who drives automobiles at breakneck speed...
Dark, not unattractive, graceful, habitually well-gowned and bejeweled, Miss Mackay was the envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs...
...furiously on, spoke M. Briand. For half an hour he conversed at breakneck speed in a low tone. Dr. Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...
...warfare is out of date," the war games were featured chiefly by attempts to maneuvre at tremendous speed and as much under cover as possible. Several battalions were marched over hill and dale as far as 25 miles in one day, and the trucks representing tanks were driven at breakneck speed...