Word: automobilist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...could repeat more than garbled rumors. Not many of those who know him know what to make of him. He is the strange head of a strange practical religion. Until two years ago his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man was established in Fontainebleau, France. Then, an atrocious automobilist, he had an accident, closed the Institute. His subsequent movements have been obscure; always he has shunned publicity. Last week the few Manhattanites who knew he was in town gathered in Author Muriel Draper's studio to get another look...