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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ryan Brougham-5-seat cabin monoplane; one-piece wing, braced by 2 pairs of tube struts; radial engine at front of a tubular section starting with sloping windshield; fuselage small; rudder roundish; split undercarriage joined to wing struts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Pierce-Arrow last week announced a new five-passenger club brougham ; in any one of three colors, roomy; to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Situation | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...inform Mr. Bassett that I have just completed a 2,285 rnile hop from San Diego to Minneapolis clad in my seal and ermine coat, satin dress, white hat and corsage of roses, for I made the trip in a Ryan monoplane-brougham type, sistership to the one Lindbergh now owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Into the Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge Code | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Married. Ruth Fahnestock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock; to A. Coster Schermerhorn, broker; in Manhattan. The bride drove to and from St. Thomas's Church in a brougham drawn by two perfectly matched sorrel horses, driven by the coachman who had officiated in the same capacity for the marriage of her parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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