Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...
ESCAPE TO THE PRESENT-Johannes Steel-Farrar fy Rinehart ($2.50). Reminiscent of E. Phillips Oppenheim, the auto-biography of an exiled German journalist and onetime spy, who here admits that his sensational dispatches (including a scoop on the Nazi Blood Purge of 1934) have "rested on pretty nearly nothing but analysis and intuition...
...Memphis, Tenn., Farmer Paul Schenk went into his barnyard and found his herd of goats playing shoot-the-chutes down the back of his new streamlined auto. Follow-the-leader fashion they leaped to the hood, then to the roof, slid down the back; had evidently been playing the game all night...
...glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When no power boat met him he paddled a quarter of a mile in a collapsible rubber boat to little St. Gildas Island to visit his friend and colleague, Dr. Alexis Carrel...
...Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets. And while I was voicing my opinions to a companion in the rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety...