Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...report of one of the Harvard special police force that he had heard the Lampoon bell ringing at four o'clock in the morning. As the bell is customarily rung only on initiation nights, he decided to investigate the case. Approaching the building, he said, he perceived a car with Connecticut license plates, and containing several occupants, bear away from the side door at a high rate of speed...
...presence of a Connecticut car causes the view in some quarters that the sacred bird was stolen by Yale undergraduates in reprisal for the Harvard paper's famed coup of the Yale fence last fall. At the time of writing no answer had been received from the Yale News in response to a query earlier in the evening whether the rumors are also current on the Eli campus. In most quarters, however, the suspicion prevails that the robbery is merely a myth invented by the Lampoon as another of its notorious publicity stunts for its forthcoming issue...
...barked the robber chieftain at last. "Get back into your car. Tell your chauffeur to drive to Bucharest without stopping, quick...
...took care of it, and it never failed me. If I had to get out of a tight place, I could step on the gas, and I knew just what she would do, and she always did it. Owning that Packard to me meant being sure of having the car I liked best, having the exclusive use of it, being sure that no irresponsible person who had no stake in it would put it out of order, being able to take care of it and know that somebody else wouldn't bang...
...People who have a lot of money don't have to worry so much about buying a car. If they don't like the first one, they can get a second one; but for ordinary folks it is different...