Word: autoists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer. In Moultrie, Ga., an irate traffic cop demanded an autoist's name, for an answer got "Scram"-and, just in the nick of time, the rest of it: Joe Scram...
...Springfield, Ohio, Autoist Vernon Boyer won an award for being a safe driver, celebrated, was presently arrested for drunken driving...
...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...
Road Hog. In Baekke, Denmark, a befuddled autoist honked impatiently behind an auto wrecker that hogged the road for 12½ miles, later protested angrily to the salvage company, learned to his chagrin that he was the drunk the wrecker had been towing home...
Quarry. In Hollywood, a skeptical judge imposed a $30 fine on Autoist Josephine Lee, who had said that she drove at great speed in order to keep sail ors from getting into...