Word: buick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, a slim, handsome woman, entertained well and blended perfectly into crowds at country-club dances. He had three healthy children, two automobiles (a 1946 Buick and a 1948 Austin), and an old but suitably located eleven-room house on Staten Island. He was a tireless member of clubs, banking associations, civic committees and charity organizations...
...week before, had opened the vault and taken out $193,660 in small bills, five U.S. $100,000 Treasury bonds, and $190,000 in bonds of smaller denominations. He put his loot in a brown handbag, took the ferry to Staten Island, calmly tossed his treasure into the family Buick, and went off to meet Mrs. Crowe for dinner at a Staten Island country club...
Charley Gray closed the door of his $30,000 house in Sycamore Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget...
Look for Big Lawns. After that he headed for New York. He settled down in suburban Rye with his mistress, a Canadian girl named Eleanor Harris, and their daughter Wendy. He bought a shiny Buick, drove it past big Westchester County estates and noted houses which had big lawns and Cadillacs parked in the driveways...
...Force of habit and force of salesmanship, as much as ability to pay, determine which car is bought. Over the years Buick has become the "doctor's car" because it looks prosperous but doesn't sound too expensive. Between Chevrolet, Pontiac and Olds, the choice is often dictated by the necessity of keeping up with the Joneses. And the snob appeal that sells many Cadillacs can work in reverse: many a man who can afford one buys a Buick instead, for fear the neighbors will think he is putting on airs...