Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
...story involves a girl who does imitations of movie stars, the discovery that a boy thought to be poor is, in reality, a wealthy heir, and a tour through the auto camps of America with Mr. Rogers at the helm of the car. The trenchant political observations of the former mayor of Beverly break forth now and again, but the production is replete only with a lazy good humor which is not stimulating...
...rhapsodize for five minutes on the dramatic rise of Henry Ford from his little bicycle shop in West Wheeling to the position of head of a great auto company. You talk for ten minutes about knee action, down-draft carburetor, no draft ventilation, and free wheeling. Maybe you throw in a couple af anecdotes about the time you went to the automobiles show. Then and only then have you answered the question. If you know your stuff about automobiles, and if you are a fast writer, and if the man who corrects the book has not had too much...
...dweller (Alice Brady) who grows suspicious of some mean-looking people who have moved in nearby with a baby. She sells them milk, gabbles at them. They are on the verge of killing the baby when the shack woman snatches it away, eludes their shots, escapes in a battered auto mobile to return the child to its mother...
...Cadillac division and one of the seven Fisher brothers of body fame. Lawrence Fisher is now a notable art collector but he is also a mechanic who learned his trade at his father's forge and anvil. He had a new car up his sleeve for the Auto Show-a La Salle, completely redesigned and repriced at $1,495, a cut of $750 from last year's figure...