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...changing styles in auto body types has led to the elimination of many choice designs which are still to be found among older cars. The windshield that could be opened is still a fond hope of many, but what about such details as a special compartment to hold golf clubs, such as is found in Packards of the early thirties? The rumble seat, famed in Americana, is now vanished with the cigar store Indian, and the touring car, fabled in our native lore, has folded its side curtains and drifted off into the oblivion of the junk yard, except...
...21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark. Conversation will be a lost art. People will simply tell each other jokes...But why am I carrying on like this? Chances are that the grandchild of the Television Age won't know how to read this...
...painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London bar and developed a fond respect for each other. Years later, Worth poured out to Pinkerton the true tales of his exploits...
...first names. Johnson ducked questions with easy bluffness that politicians understand. "Do you still beat your wife?" he countered to one loaded question. At times, he talked about himself in the third person with the air of a man watching himself from the wings of history, a faint, fond smile on his lips...
...Flesh. In Smithville, Ohio, Long's Market felt the pinch, advertised for "a good home for a male coach dog; very fond of sirloin steaks...