Word: automobilist
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...persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
Reilly In a Villa. Hall's careless youth came to a sharp stop in August 1914. He became a volunteer "automobilist" with the British Army, chauffeured Albert, King of the Belgians. The British sent him (a "neutral" American) to Berlin, where he spied out plans for the German aviation program and the bombing of London by Zeppelins. Later, Hall fought with the U.S. Army at Chateau-Thierry and the Argonne...
...round face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained in languages, music, painting, sculpture, cooking, sewing and domestic science...
...Ventura, Calif, arrived an automobilist & family, asked H. A. Johnson, local Red Cross official, for gasoline money. Inquisitive Red Grossman Johnson lifted the engine hood of the automobile, found beneath it no motor. The automobilist explained that he had been towed all the way from New Hampshire. His method: in each town he would stop a motorist, tell him his car was broken down, ask for a tow to the next town where a relative would pay for repairs. Mr. Johnson withheld Red Cross aid. The motorless automobilist immediately got a tow to Santa Barbara...
...Royal Automobile Club with a great resolve. In a manifesto soon signed by aristocratic clubbers they proposed "that in every city of the Kingdom of Norway the use of the horn shall be done away with, so that the attention it involves on the part of the automobilist may be redirected to skilful driving...