Word: automobilistes
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...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...
...that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front...
Dirty, bumpy bricks at Indianapolis Speedway will once a year bring fame and fortune to an automobilist, if he will travel over them a sufficient number of times at a speed in the neighborhood of 100 miles per hour. This year the winner of the 500-mile "classic" on the two and a half mile track is a youngster comparatively unknown, a dirt track specialist-George Souders, 27, who spends his more serious moments studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. In a Duesenberg special, he covered the 500 miles of bricks at an average speed...
...that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly keep a hand on the joy stick, just as the automobilist must on the steering wheel. The joy stick is conveniently located between the pilot's knees...
...Organ Recital will fill the next date on Sunday, February 12 at 4 o'clock, while a serious discussion by Mr. F. A. Goodwin on "The Automobilist in Massachusetts" will be held the following Wednesday. The final lecture of the series will be a talk, Friday, February 17, by Professor G. H. Parker on a biological problem, but the month's entertainments will not close until Wednesday, February 22, when a motion picture evening is to be held, with the presentation of an educational film, a comedy, and a drama...