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...outskirts of Los Angeles raced two motorcycle policemen, followed by an Auburn speedster with a streamlined windshield fastened to the rear. Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official took pencil & paper, certified that Frank Bartell...
While France's President Albert Lebrun, 61, was walking across a square in Metz, a bicyclist zipped out of a side street, knocked him down, banged his pate. The President of France arose smiling...
...Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion of the "megaphonic crooner" and the "prohibitionist," Mr. Moulan may claim traditional carte-blanche--indeed, D'Oyly-Carte--blanche...
Somebody aboard a speeding railway train near Dusseldorf fired random shots at pedestrians, hit none. Gerresheim police picked up a dead bicyclist, said he had been killed "apparently by shots fired aimlessly by passengers on a tram...
...industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined. The second convict, Emile (Henri Marchand...