Word: astley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
...What seemed "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine"? (See BUSINESS...
...pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats...
...least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies for she is writing tale of love, of lightness, and of whimsically, not a treatise on Bolshevism in war-swept England. The woman in the case Miss Astley Madam is described as a penny plain" person--just a girl who s doctor's assistant, who loves a man and lives. Then, too, there are aristocrats to the number of three, but for the most part, their role is only penny-plains...