Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Streit, the candidates with whom he motored were stopped every few miles by gendarmes, who were "always armed with rifles and equipped like soldiers." The usual procedure during these halts was for the gendarmes to point their rifles at the driver-candidate while he slowly edged his car forward, the other two candidates meanwhile shouting at and arguing with the gendarmes, who eventually grounded their rifles and allowed the car to pass...
...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
...Manhattan when they were wearing precisely similar suits of pepper-and-salt mixture and twin grey felt hats, Mr. Wilson is said to have said: "Look more like each other than ever, don't we? Well, that's an advantage for me. The people in the car will think you are the Governor, and as the Governor of New Jersey isn't very popular just now, I'll get all the pleasant bows intended for the more acceptable editor of the Ladies' Home Journal." Sure enough, a lady in one of the cars they passed...
...marquee over the sidewalk. There was a mesh of strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...
...from general in the average U. S. home that the children can drive the family car much better than their parents. Father has trouble getting the gears to mesh properly in hurried traffic, and mother is eternally leaving the ignition switch unturned while the starter grinds on and on. All this is indicative of an hypothesis: young men and women have mechanical sense superior to that of older men and women...