Word: berna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course at an average speed of 13 m.p.h...
...Jeronimo journeyed on into the interior "it seemed as though everything here was ambiguous, merely a substitute for something else, but only in the sense in which things are substitutes for their souls, events for their meaning. . . ." Berna, fey-wise daughter of a drunken planter, half fell in love with him, but he was looking for something else. At Riquem's plantation Jeronimo spent a tense evening: his host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited...
...expected that every one of the 34 coaches in the I. C. 4A. field this year will be at the dinner including Ted Meredith, Donald Lippincott, John Paul Jones, Tell Berna, Sabin Carr, John DeWitt, Card Taylor, Allen Hellfrich, Bill Cox, Leroy Brown. Larry Whitney, John Hubbard, Gil Horrax and others...